{{Short description|German politician}} {{Expand German|topic=bio|Malte Spitz|date=March 2014}} thumb|Malte Spitz '''Malte Spitz''' (born 14 April 1984) is a German Green Party politician and executive committee member.<ref name="ted">{{cite web|url=https://www.ted.com/speakers/malte_spitz|title=Malte Spitz | Speaker | TED|publisher=ted.com|access-date=2014-03-12}}</ref> He works on media and privacy issues.
A candidate for the Bundestag in the September 2013 national election in Germany. He is known for suing T-Mobile for collecting metadata.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/opinion/sunday/germans-loved-obama-now-we-dont-trust-him.html|title=Germans Loved Obama. Now We Don't Trust Him.|date=30 June 2013|work=The New York Times}}</ref> He is a TED Speaker and founded the German NGO Society for Civil Liberties, focusing on strategic litigation for human rights.
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==External links== * [https://www.ted.com/talks/malte_spitz_your_phone_company_is_watching Your phone company is watching] - TEDGlobal 2012 * [http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention Tell-all telephone] {{Alliance 90/The Greens}} {{Authority control}}
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