Malte Spitz: Your phone company is watching

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.

Malte Spitz asked his cell phone carrier what it knew about him--and mapped what he found out.

https://www.ted.com/talks/malte_spitz...

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[Wael EA]

As a fellow stutterer, let me tell you that speaking like that is like carrying a 100 pound burden on your back, struggling to cary it, and fearing how everyone is laughing at your struggle. It took him real courage to get up there and speak. I'm very proud of him.

- a stutterer turned avid public speaker

[GrieferCian]

All everyone has to do is search, "Dicks" on their phone 10 times a day, and phone companies will believe that everyone wants dicks on their next phone advertisement, I can hear it now, "Do you like dicks? 10 million people a day search for dicks on their phone, and we do our best to provide you the best dicks possible. Virgin mobile, we have dicks."

[David García]

Lo bueno que no tengo plan =)

[Marcel Geraerds]

scary shit :-(

[Wael EA]

Haha, sure :-)

[Gabriela Anghel]

The problem is that Cell/phone companies and Internet providers can not secure our data and we do not trust anymore that our info will not be faked up as anyone convenience and for anyone's use!

Thank you for this video. If I wouldn't have read on comments it wouldn't pass through my mind that the speaker was a stutter!

[MrTmsgsn]

LOLZ

[BrendanIsCool]

May I hug you?

[dr1345]

Can I search for pussies instead though?

[DISGUYROX]

I arr abill too tipe mor akeratley then the mispellling inn thiss~~

"I beklieve that some of the people in the audience were appaluding".

lol