# Your phone company is watching

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2012
- Speaker: Malte Spitz
- Year: 2012
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/malte_spitz_your_phone_company_is_watching)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [Your phone company is watching](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/malte_spitz_your_phone_company_is_watching/2229e92087a7), 10 min (TED's player)