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Most portable phones will transmit their location, computed using GPS, on remote command. The phone company is accumulating a giant list of places that the user has been. A German MP in the Green Party [correction: Malte Spitz is on the staff of the Green Party, not an elected official] asked the phone company to give him the data it had about where he was. He had to sue, he had to go to court to get this information. And when he got it, he received forty-four thousand location points for a period of six months! That's more than two hundred per day! What that means is someone could form a very good picture of his activities just by looking at that data.