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Study secretly tracked cellphone users
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In a study designed to track how large-scale disease might spread, researchers have made a not-so-surprising discovery: Most people are slaves to routine and tend to stay close to home. (article 2)
Over the course of six months, three Northeastern University researchers tracked cell phone users in Europe in search of information on human travel patterns that could be used in disease epidemic prevention and urban planning. (article 2)
Additionally, for one week, the researchers followed a group of 206 cell phone users equipped with programs that allowed their location to be recorded every two hours by their cell phone company. (article 2)
Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cellphone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home. (article 4)
The first-of-its-kind study by Northeastern University raises privacy and ethical questions for its monitoring methods, which would be illegal in the United States. (article 4)
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. (article 3)
The results could be used to help prevent outbreaks of disease or forecast traffic, the scientists said. (article 6)
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researchers, Hidalgo, Study, data, Tracked |
Source articles
- News for Dallas, Texas (dallasnews.com, 06/04/2008, 876 words)
- ABC News: How Will Disease Spread? (ABCNews, 06/05/2008, 332 words)
- Cellphone Tracking Study Shows We’re Creatures of Habit (nytimes.com, 06/05/2008, 751 words)
- Study secretly tracked cellphone users (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 06/05/2008, 726 words)
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > SCITECH (FOX News, 06/04/2008, 15 words)
- Mobile phones expose human habits (BBC News, 06/04/2008, 922 words)
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