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Even here in Germany of which most think that we have good privacy protection laws, mobile phone providers are collecting and selling anonymized movement profil
by raimue 9y ago
Even here in Germany of which most think that we have good privacy protection laws, mobile phone providers are collecting and selling anonymized movement profiles of their customers. Public transport companies use these to improve their service, as well as companies offering navigation systems.
I would be surprised if tracking via the phone network was not common practice in other countries. In case of London, WiFi would of course enable tracking of people on the Tube, but in general using WiFi tracking should yield a more fine-grained movement profile, which would not be possible with phone networks only in a dense city center.
- peterjmag 9y agoFor those who haven't seen it, here's a great illustration of what that data looked like for one person back in 2009: http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention I can imagine that it's only gotten more granular and comprehensive since then.
- KGIII 9y agoThat site makes me happier about being able to seldom carry my phone. I don't leave it home for privacy reasons, but that's a nice side benefit.