Smartphone App Developers Being Criminally Investigated Over
Privacy Issues?  A couple of stories about mobile phones and
your privacy, or lack thereof, that have appeared recently that
I thought would be on interest.  A few weeks ago, there was a
story in the New York Times about a German Green party
politician by the name of Malte Spitz who discovered that his
movements - apparently along with other German mobile phone
users - were being continuously and routinely tracked by
Deutsche Telekom. The Times article states that:  "In a six-
month period - from Aug 31, 2009, to Feb. 28, 2010, Deutsche
Telekom had recorded and saved his longitude and latitude
coordinates more than 35,000 times."  This is not entirely
surprising given Deutsche Telekom needs - as do all other mobile
phone companies - to track the location of a mobile phone user.
The Times article noted that:  "Every seven seconds or so, the
phone company of someone with a working cell phone is
determining the nearest tower, so as to most efficiently r