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Study: People are stuck in daily habits
Experts at Boston's Northeastern University used information from 100,000 mobile phones in Europe to track people's whereabouts on a daily basis for a six-month period, The New York Times reported Thursday.
"Individuals display significant regularity, because they return to a few highly frequented locations, such as home or work," a researcher said.
Experts have suggested data from the study could help advance the fields of urban planning and disease tracking.
"Slices of our behavior are preserved in these electronic data sets. This is creating huge opportunities for science," said Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, of the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 06/06/2008
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06-12-2008 12:13
Claude wrote:
Cell phone tracking in Boston
Pure invasion of privacy. The people who did it and the personnel company who provided them access to the data scource should be tried, convicted and sentenced to life at Guantanamo. They are the terrorists.
06-10-2008 09:43
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Is the "researcher" in here in the habit of not using his name because he makes dumb remarks?
06-10-2008 09:33
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We're not nomads: "Individuals display significant regularity, because they return to a few highly frequented locations, such as home or work," a researcher said.
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