The system CAN distinguish between cars, bicycles and pedestrians...and of course clusters of phones not in motion...say for instance, people who are stranded and in need of evacuation help.
The data only says there's a cell phone in this position in this instant...it doesn't identify you unless you use the opt-in path which is a different probe. From everything I've read about this technology - and now seeing reports from the ground truth test sites - this will save tax dollars, give eveyone better information about traffic, through its use will help cut down on greenhouse gases from emissions, will help first responders find people stuck in an evacuation (by showing where groups of cell phones are-not by their personal id)...this is very positive data mining that is non invasive.
the data you refer to in your last sentence does not exist, if you read the article carefully, you will see that the information gathered by the IO system is already stripped of individually identifying characteristics other than geopositional data
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The system CAN distinguish between cars, bicycles and pedestrians...and of course clusters of phones not in motion...say for instance, people who are stranded and in need of evacuation help.
The data only says there's a cell phone in this position in this instant...it doesn't identify you unless you use the opt-in path which is a different probe. From everything I've read about this technology - and now seeing reports from the ground truth test sites - this will save tax dollars, give eveyone better information about traffic, through its use will help cut down on greenhouse gases from emissions, will help first responders find people stuck in an evacuation (by showing where groups of cell phones are-not by their personal id)...this is very positive data mining that is non invasive.
the data you refer to in your last sentence does not exist, if you read the article carefully, you will see that the information gathered by the IO system is already stripped of individually identifying characteristics other than geopositional data