Your phone company is watching - Malte Spitz

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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. Talk by Malte Spitz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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