It's tracking your every move and you may not even know

Interesting piece from New York Times and Zeit Online about how mobile companies are tracking us in our neighbourhoods and beyond.

German Green party politician, Malte Spitz, recently learned that in a six-month period Deutsche Telekom had recorded and saved his longitude and latitude coordinates more than 35,000 times.

Mr. Spitz, a privacy advocate, worked with Zeit Online, a sister publication of a prominent German newspaper, Die Zeit, to map those coordinates over time.

O their website, Zeit Online say:

To illustrate just how much detail from someone’s life can be mined from this stored data, Zeit Online has "augmented" Spitz’s information with records that anyone can access: the politician’s tweets and blog entries were added to the information on his movements. It is the kind of process that any good investigator would likely use to profile a person under observation.