Malte Spitz in Germany explains how the phone companies tracked everything he did, where he went, every step he took. The EU required data retention collect an enormous amount of information about each phone user, later ruled unconstitutional. But they are still recording the data. This a blueprint for surveillance of society. If this had been present in 1989 the STASI (secret police) could have tracked everyone that was protesting and the Berlin wall would have never fallen.