As long as your cell phone is on, your service provider is collecting data from your cell phone that can pinpoint your location and any communication you may have made wherever…whenever - helpful if you're ever abducted, but not so much if you want to 'fall off the grid'. ZIET ONLINE was presented with 6 months of phone data for German politician Malte Spitz, which they used to create an animated, interactive infographic that shows Spitz's movements and phone communications over that time period. According to information gathered for the March 30, 2011 Infographic of the Day by fastcodesign.com "the major American cellphone providers declined to explain what exactly they collect and what they used it for."
