Your app requires a Facebook account. Please change that. Nearly everyone that has an android phone also has a Google account. Please make that an option.
We're using Facebook for structured social network data, not single sign-on like the Google/Facebook/Twitter/OpenID/etc. options offered by some websites and apps.
make an export tool for those operators that have web interfaces (for bill checking purposes) to the metadata logs?
We certainly considered this. We wanted to make participation as straightforward as possible, so we stuck to user-friendly and well-known software APIs.
Are you guys looking to just target a certain android platform or will this study reach iOS users as well?
The study is presently Android only. We would like to support iOS, but the telephony APIs do not include phone metadata.
Also from the information I've read thus far the data is being used in conjunction to a court case regarding NSA collections;
While we hope our research results will have a public impact, the MetaPhone project is not affiliated with litigation against the National Security Agency.
This in mind how long will the study hold the metadata and when/how will it be destroyed?
The pace of the study will be largely dictated by user response. We anticipate completing our work by Spring Quarter at Stanford, but the project may take longer.
We aren't dastardly plotting a secret scheme to bootstrap a startup. This is an academic research project.
As for the data, we recognize that participants are placing their trust in us. We have committed to securing the data and deleting it once the study is complete.
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Does it work if you use Google Voice over VoIP instead of the stock dialer and "voice minutes?"
We only collect phone and text metadata from the Android telephony APIs. Other messaging and voice platforms are not included.
Your app requires a Facebook account. Please change that. Nearly everyone that has an android phone also has a Google account. Please make that an option.
We're using Facebook for structured social network data, not single sign-on like the Google/Facebook/Twitter/OpenID/etc. options offered by some websites and apps.
at&t web log?
make an export tool for those operators that have web interfaces (for bill checking purposes) to the metadata logs?
We certainly considered this. We wanted to make participation as straightforward as possible, so we stuck to user-friendly and well-known software APIs.
Are you guys looking to just target a certain android platform or will this study reach iOS users as well?
The study is presently Android only. We would like to support iOS, but the telephony APIs do not include phone metadata.
Also from the information I've read thus far the data is being used in conjunction to a court case regarding NSA collections;
While we hope our research results will have a public impact, the MetaPhone project is not affiliated with litigation against the National Security Agency.
This in mind how long will the study hold the metadata and when/how will it be destroyed?
The pace of the study will be largely dictated by user response. We anticipate completing our work by Spring Quarter at Stanford, but the project may take longer.
We aren't dastardly plotting a secret scheme to bootstrap a startup. This is an academic research project.
As for the data, we recognize that participants are placing their trust in us. We have committed to securing the data and deleting it once the study is complete.
Hi all,
/.!
I'm one of the Stanford researchers working on the MetaPhone project. Way cool that we made
Some additional details are available at metaphone.me. I would be glad to answer questions.
Best,
Jonathan