The recent revelation that iPhones store personal geolocational data shouldn’t really surprise anyone, but Big Brother Watch has discovered some evidence of the potential uses of this information. Firstly, we hear the story of Green Party politician Malte Spitz in Germany, who sued his network provider Deutsche Telekom to force them to hand over six months of his phone data. He then passed this on to Zeit Online, a German website, who combined the geolocational data with readily available information from online resources such as Twitter, blog entries and websites.
What they have created with this data looks like something out of the film Enemy Of The State. The video shows where Mr Spitz was at all times, how many phone calls he made and received, how many text messages he sent, how long he spent on the internet, and what he was doing at those locations. They opt not to show the content of his text messages, but obviously they are also contained within the data his network possessed. The government can request this data for a variety of security-based reasons, and any hacker who can bypass the online security of mobile networks can easily access it. Is the usefulness of Google Maps worth wilfully disclosing this information? More...
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