Cell-phone location data is shockingly intrusive.
This applies to cell-phone location data, information you store in the cloud, you name it.
First, the trajectory of each individual is extracted from sparse sampling of mobile phone location data after data cleansing.
In previous work he pulled off a similar trick, reidentifying individuals using anonymous mobile phone location data.
Researchers have mapped precisely how human travel affects the spread of malaria in Kenya by using cell-phone location data.
All over the country, civil liberties organizations like the ACLU and EFF have challenged the government over getting cell phone location data without a warrant.
The FBI says it is still gathering evidence at Pulse and analysing mobile phone location data to piece together Mateen's activities leading up to the massacre.
Then, the urban crowd flux is estimated using an approach of human trajectory gridding reconstruction based on mobile phone location data.
But, according to recent news reports, this real-time phone location data has long been available to entities beyond your wireless carrier, for a price.
Çolak, S., Alexander, L. P., Alvim, B. G., Mehndiretta, S. R. & González, M. C. Analyzing cell phone location data for urban travel: current methods, limitations and opportunities.
