Maybe instead of the word “saying” I should use the word “telling.”
The common discussion is about our invasion of privacy… yet many may be easily and readily giving away more info than they ever dreamed.
In the latest post at O’Reilly Radar – “ETech: Mobile Phones Reveal the Behaviors of Places and People,” it says:
Tony Jebara’s presentation “Mobile Phones Reveal the Behaviors of Places and People” really opened my eyes to what amazing things you can derive from large data sets. Tony co-founded Sense Networks which specializes in taking GPS and mobile phone location data and deriving as much useful information as possible from it. Sense Networks works with mobile phone service providers who collected data from users who opted in to have their data be collected and mined. All the data they receive from the service provider is GPS location data — no personal information at all was ever made available to Sense Networks.
read more at http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/etech-mobile-phones-reveal-the.html






