Your phone company is watching

Title:: Your phone company is watching
Speaker:: Malte Spitz
Description:: What kind of data is your cell phone company collecting? Malte Spitz wasn’t too worried when he asked his operator in Germany to share information stored about him. Multiple unanswered requests and a lawsuit later, Spitz received 35,830 lines of code -- a detailed, nearly minute-by-minute account of half a year of his life.

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Video Language:: English
Team:: closed TED
Project:: TEDTalks
Duration:: 09:56

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