What does your mobile operator actually know about your daily life?
In short: This video explores the massive scale of data collection by telecommunications companies, using a real-world legal battle to illustrate how much of your life is recorded.
In Germany, Malte Spitz challenged his mobile operator to reveal the information they had stored about him. After a lawsuit and several ignored requests, he was provided with 35,830 lines of code. The dataset provided a thorough, almost every-minute record of six months of his existence.
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