Malte Spitz: Your phone company is watching

http://www.ted.com 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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[kotap0]

He stutters, thats a handicap.

Maybe you can rap double time, but this talk is about content, not about presentation skills.

[Czathero]

Big Brother is watching. :)

[FollyAte]

This is the info the Prism program in the States is getting and it is just but a fraction according to Snowden.

[Amilcar Langarica]

Since there is internet and such technology information has been stored and will continue to be stored for whatever reason whether we like it or not, we might as well just learn to live with that. In the medieval times the kings and lord kept information of all their people, that is how the world has ever worked and continue to function. We created this system, now we cant undo it because we don't know what the alternative would be.

[Bbfishman]

hahaha blow me please....seriously..i dont kno if you can tell...but i dont give a flying fuck. This guy's voice is still retarded

[Spunjo1221]

I shared this on facebook and it mysteriously disappeared from my wall...whoa.

[Antnj81]

There's barely anything racist about mentioning someone's race in a descriptive way. Nice try "trying" to divert from that OVERTLY asshole remark about someone's disability. As we can see from your comments being hidden from 'too many negative votes' and mine having a couple thumbs up, it's clear that people can see right through you

btw, look at you back pedaling with that "just trollin, bro" shit just because of the reaction you get.. lol seriously, who's taking "teh webz" seriously now, bro?

[Bbfishman]

haha yeah good one...you've got me pegged so well. way to show your racism with that insult you pulled out about taco farting mexicans. Real nice case of calling the kettle black there pal....you tell me i have no manners and here you are insulting me, a random person on the internet, and you do it by using some racist shit. Shame on you bud, i simply made an observation...dont take everything so seriously, you're in the internet bro....maybe you needed to be reminded, ppl say shit on here

[Antnj81]

heheh yea there's a big difference between mentioning a race, in a sentence, for descriptive purposes and belittling a race (ie. racism)