Apropos of recent events, how well can you identify individuals from shallow, off-the-shelf and nominally anonymised mobile cellphone metadata without cross-correlation to other large databases?<\/p>\n
We study fifteen months of human mobility data for one and a half million individuals and find that human mobility traces are highly unique … Knowing as few as four spatio-temporal points taken at random is enough to uniquely characterize 95% of the traces amongst 1.5 M users … At most eleven points are enough to uniquely characterize all considered traces.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This is why I use the wonderfully comprehensive Chinese security and permissions manager LBE<\/a> on an open-source version of Android<\/a> to block all mobile apps from routinely accessing my geolocation and IMEI<\/a> (and also block contact pilfering and call log scanning). You can also use Gemini App Manager<\/a> to disable all the event-triggered background autoruns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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