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Cell Phone Tracking Reveals Users' Habits
DinkyDogg writes "'New research that makes creative use of sensitive location-tracking data from 100,000 cellphones in Europe suggests that most people can be found in one of just a few locations at any time, and that they do not generally go far from home.' More interesting than their conclusion, however, is how they got their data. 'The researchers said they used the potentially controversial data only after any information that could identify individuals had been scrambled. Even so, they wrote, people's wanderings are so subject to routine that by using the patterns of movement that emerged from the research, "we can obtain the likelihood of finding a user in any location." The researchers were able to obtain the data from a European provider of cellphone service that was obligated to collect the information. By agreement with the company, the researchers did not disclose the country where the provider operates.' Any guesses which European country requires cell phone providers to record where their customers make calls, and then allows them to give that data away without disclosing that they have done so?"
My typical day is: wake up, shower, go to work, be at work 8h (I don't go out for lunch), go back home, cook, eat, relax, sleep. That adds up to 2 places where I'll be, and anywhere on the highway to work. Add in grocery shopping in one of the two nearby supermarkets and you pretty much know where I'll be on any given day Monday to Friday.
This is why I walk my dog a different route each day. I don't even know what route we will take until we are back. It adds a little bit of surprise and a little bit of uncertainty into an otherwise very uniform and repetitive existence.Lock the wife and the dog in the boot of the car.
Return one hour later.
Who's happy to see you?
...that most people can be found in one of just a few locations at any time,Forget those losers, I wanna know about the people that can be in 2 or more locations at the time!
What is best in life? To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you and to hear the lamentations of their women.
I vary my route to and from work just a little each day...to keep the terrorists guessing. It's the only way to be sure.
Ouija dog. Patent it. Now.
So either the USA government is doing a much better job of keeping even the fact that phones are tapped at all hidden from public scrutiny, or it really is much, much worse here (in this regard, at least).
Much worse only begins to describe it. The Netherlands have more than 10x the number of terrorists we do.
If you had submitted it back then we'd be reading it again now as a dupe. You were doing us a favour!
This is where the serious fun begins.
Interesting. On the contrary, I never know where I'm going to wake up after a party. Once I woke up in a hotel in another city.
Third Reich?
Dogs like routines. Don't you know you are causing great mental anguish to your pet?
You are a cruel pet owner.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Tweedle-dumb?
Do you still have both of your kidneys?
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.