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Cal Flyn, a journalist for The Daily Telegraph, has used Google Maps to map ane twelvemonth of her movements. Using Freedom of Information laws Cal obtained all the place information held nearly her past times her mobile cry upwards company.

Digital surveillance: what my cry upwards records nation nearly me, animates through the year's place information showing Cal's to in addition to from work, visiting her parents inwards Scotland in addition to everywhere else she visited.

The Daily Telegraph article is manifestly inspired past times German linguistic communication Green political party politician, Malte Spit's Google Map, published inwards the German linguistic communication paper Zeit terminal year. Verräterisches Handy uses Google Maps to animate Spitz' movements over vi months.

The total of information collected past times Spit's in addition to Flyn's cry upwards companies is amazing (some would nation frightening). Spit's place was logged 35,000 times inwards a vi calendar month period. Flyn's map shows her whereabouts for a whole year, amongst solely 2 days missing (when on opor-garai in addition to she had left her cry upwards charger at home).