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Here's an interesting TED talk by Malte Spitz on what kind of data phone companies are 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.

TED Video: Malte Spitz: Your phone company is watching

This comes from Charlie Chaplin's 1940 film The Great Dictator - over six decades later it still seems unfortunately apt.

The video is 3m 38s long, or alternatively the transcript is available in the full entry.

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