In the US, telecom companies are not required to publish what kinds of information they are collecting. Additionally, most people don't know that the companies are even collecting information based on their locations. One argument is that tracking people through their cell phones is valuable to law enforcement. This makes me wonder how long it will be until marketers get their hands on this information.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Telecom Companies.. the Next Big Brother?
Malte Spitz, a German Green Party politician, went to court to obtain the information that the cell phone kept about him. In It’s Tracking Your Every Move and You May Not Even Know from nytimes.com, Noah Cohen discusses what Spitz discovered, as well as potential implications of this data-gathering. According to the Deutsche Telekom documents, Spitz's location had been recorded 35,000 times in the six months that the records are kept. After a legal battle, the company would not give Spitz additional information about the records kept about his account.
In the US, telecom companies are not required to publish what kinds of information they are collecting. Additionally, most people don't know that the companies are even collecting information based on their locations. One argument is that tracking people through their cell phones is valuable to law enforcement. This makes me wonder how long it will be until marketers get their hands on this information.
In the US, telecom companies are not required to publish what kinds of information they are collecting. Additionally, most people don't know that the companies are even collecting information based on their locations. One argument is that tracking people through their cell phones is valuable to law enforcement. This makes me wonder how long it will be until marketers get their hands on this information.
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