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Telcos Waking Up To the Value of Your Location

Posted by kdawson on from the cdrs-from-your-cars dept.

holy_calamity writes "Cell phone networks represent probably the most effective data collectors of all time: almost everyone's movements and communications are logged in some way by these firms thanks to the ubiquity of cell phones. Now they're beginning to wake up to the value of that data, as researchers mine call records to study travel and social patterns at previously unimaginable scales. Not surprisingly, some are thinking about how to monetize that data, too."

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  1. Re:Value by E+IS+mC(Square) · · Score: 0, Troll

    >> I just wished the iPhone and Android let me have a background easy scripting language like python.

    Out of aboe two, you know which one already offers it, and which one will never.