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New York Times: Cellphones Track Your Every Move, and You May Not Even Know

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Story on the Zeit Online data retention interactive: “This is really the most compelling visualization in a public forum I have ever seen,” said [Matthew Blaze, a professor of computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania], adding that it “shows how strong a picture even a fairly low-resolution location can give.”

Online Journalism Blog: Guest post: visualising mobile phone data – the data retention app

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"It’s not very often that one can follow the direct impact of an article, let alone a piece of data journalism. But the visualization of the cellphone data of Malte Spitz from the Green party in Germany led to visible repercussions in the US. Following a piece in the New York Times about Spitz and the data app, some days ago two senators wrote a letter to the 4 main US-carriers for information about their data retention policy."