How Phones stalk you
By Techgirl

How creepy is this?  We all know that mobile phone signals can be used (misused) by the Government and Telecom companies to track us everywhere, but the level of electronic surveillance has been a matter of debate so far.  No longer! Nytimes is reporting on how a Germany politician Malte Spitz sued one of the biggest Telecom companies in Europe, Deutsche Telekom, to find out all the information they had on him

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Mr. Spitz went to court to find out exactly what his cellphone company, Deutsche Telekom, knew about his whereabouts.

The results were astounding. In a six-month period — from Aug 31, 2009, to Feb. 28, 2010, Deutsche Telekom had recorded and saved his longitude and latitude coordinates more than 35,000 times. It traced him from a train on the way to Erlangen at the start through to that last night, when he was home in Berlin.

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How creepy is that!  Eww, now everywhere I go I will imagine that my Vodafone mobile is being tracked by the cute ZooZoos sitting in a top secret Digital fortress in a quiet corner in Mumbai.

Techgoss note:  Techgirl is a senior Tech journalist who reports on the IT, KPO and KPO Sectors for a leading media house.  In her spare time, she dabbles in satire in her blog techgirltalk.blogspot.com.  Techgirl has been ejected from Twitter for satirizing an Indian Minister.  Her satire blog has links to her Times of India interview detailing her being kicked out of Twitter, and then being invited back.