On the privacy-conscientious use of mobile phone data
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de Montjoye, Yves-Alexandre; Gambs, Sébastien; Blondel, Vincent; Canright, Geoffrey; de Cordes, Nicolas; Deletaille, Sébastien; Engø-Monsen, Kenth; Garcia-Herranz, Manuel; Kendall, Jake; Kerry, Cameron; Krings, Gautier; Letouze, Emmanuel F; Luengo-Oroz, Miguel; Oliver, Nuria; Rocher, Luc; Rutherford, Alex; Smoreda, Zbigniew; Steele, Jessica; Wetter, Erik; Pentland, Alex Paul; Bengtsson, Linus; ... Show more Show less
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The breadcrumbs we leave behind when using our mobile phones-who somebody calls, for how long, and from where-contain unprecedented insights about us and our societies. Researchers have compared the recent availability of large-scale behavioral datasets, such as the ones generated by mobile phones, to the invention of the microscope, giving rise to the new field of computational social science.
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2018-12Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media LaboratoryJournal
Scientific Data
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Springer Nature
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de Montjoye, Yves-Alexandre et al "On the privacy-conscientious use of mobile phone data." Scientific Data 5 (December 2018): 180286 © 2018 The Author(s)
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2052-4463