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Malte Spitz activity for October 12, 2009

From this same data, another organization created an animated map. It

shows Spitz’s minute-byy-minute movements all around Germanyy and

displayys a flashing syymbol everyy time he made or received a call. This is an

amazing level of detail captured in just few ordinaryy dayys. 3

The data on Spitz isn’t a special case, of course, nor is this situation

confined to Germanyy. It’s simplyy a striking example of the data that your

cell-phone carrier keeps. And it can be used in a court of law.

In 2015, a case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth

Circuit involved the use of similar cell-phone records in the United States.

The case concerned two robbers who robbed a bank, a 7-Eleven, several

fast-food restaurants, and a jewelryy store in Baltimore. Byy having Sprint

hand over information about the location of the prime suspects’ phones for

the previous 221 dayys, police were able to tie the suspects to a series of

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