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MIT Researches Map Cell Phone Usage

Posted by Zonk on from the take-a-look-at-hookup-hill dept.

stlhawkeye writes "MIT researchers with the Mobile Landscape Projects have mapped a city based on cell phone usage. The article includes a map of Graz, Austria with a color-coded overlay indicating cell phone usage in various parts of the city. Using call origin and destination data, they are able to not only reverse-engineer a topographic map of the geography and landscape, but one of phone usage as well. The implications of the research have practical applications in law enforcement, emergency management, and traffic management. There are also, of course, privacy implications."

2 of 88 comments (clear)

  1. Invasion of Privacy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is anyone checking to ensure that the MIT engineers are not eavesdropping on your cell-phone telephone calls?

  2. Geography... by someguy456 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think the question on all of our minds right now is...

    What the hell are MIT researchers doing at Austria?!?

    /chose the wrong school

    //no wait, there are hot girls here

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    Robert Bindler
    A Computer Science student's views on technology.