Wireless firms track users' every move
(NEWSER) - Your cell phone knows when you're sleeping, when you're awake, and whether you prefer air or land travel. German politician Malte Spitz recently took Deutsche Telekom to court to determine exactly how much it knows about his whereabouts, the New York Times reports. Data in hand, he saw that Deutsche tracked his coordinates at home, on the train, even on an airplane. “At any given instant, a cell company has to know where you are; it is constantly registering with the tower with the strongest signal,” one expert says. More»
