Die Zeit Uses Six Months of Mobile Data to Profile Green Politician

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46 points·wglb··6 comments

An almost ironic attempt by a green politician to position his party as pro-internet.

At the same time the Green party is pushing on a state level for the (in Germany highly controversial) use of trojan horse malware to spy on crime suspects ( http://www.gruene-nrw.de/fileadmin/user_upload/gruene-nrw/po... ), and to be highly flexible when it comes to abandoning their opposition to the data retention act ( https://netzpolitik.org/2011/grun-rot-in-baden-wurtemberg-wi... ).

Its a bit unfair to purely project the behavior of his party as a whole on Malte Spitz.

As we are lacking other people that have the guts, the resources and the contacts to make this visualization happen, I am absolutely happy with him going all the way. It is one of the best pieces to show "normal people" how much can be done with all the data companies gather about them.

Last year's news: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2379917

And such a baity title. Makes it appear like some sort of spying of the newspaper.

To be clear, Malte Spitz released this data voluntarily to Zeit. The accompanying article is available here:

http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2011-03/data-protecti...

Direct link: http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention

I recommend pressing the play button (it is not a video) and watching for a bit.

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