[privacy] Study Secretly Tracks Cell Phone Users Outside U.S.

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The Mercury News (AP).

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Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the
United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people
rarely stray more than a few miles from home.

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.

It also yielded somewhat surprising results that reveal how little people
move around in their daily lives. Nearly three-quarters of those studied
mainly stayed within a 20-mile-wide circle for half a year.

The scientists would not disclose where the study was done, only describing
the location as an industrialized nation.

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More:
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9477236

- - ferg

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