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March 28, 2013 10:34 am PDT
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Researchers show method for de-anonymizing 95% of "anonymous" cellular location data
Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility, a Nature Scientific Reports paper by MIT researchers and colleagues at Belgium's Universite Catholique de Louvain, documents that 95% of "anonymous" location data from cellphone towers can be de-anonymized to the individual level. That is, given data from a region's cellular towers, the researchers can [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/jV7OppK4tt0/story01.htm
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