Spiegel Online: Spying Scandal Widens at Deutsche Telekom
The German Telekom never had a very good reputation - but it just went totally downhill. Since the year 2000 this huge corporate monsters has monitored thousands of phone calls of managers and journalists. They even placed a mole in a German magazine to find out what journalists knew about other dirty tricks of the Telekom.
Plus Telekom tracked the movement of journalists via cell phone data.
It once again proves the point that modern telecommunication providers should not be left alone - or better say - without a watchdog. These companies have way too much power and information to be left alone with it.
Data protection is a modern human right - and should be taken MUCH MUCH MUCH more seriously. Most people don’t care or understand the issues.
But companies like Deutsche Telekom can track, listen in and read every mail, phone call, text message or web site you visited via their services. Even when you NOT use their services - a lot of phone and internet traffic runs via their routers and data nodes - so they can eavesdrop even when you are not their client.
The same is true for so many other giants like Vodaphone, AT&T, Comcast and NT&T etc.
