Or does it just seem that way on some days?
Link to June 5 New York Times article, "Call It Predictable: Cell Phones Users are Easy to Find". (newspaper headline)
(Curiously, the online headline was changed to "Cellphone Tracking Study Shows We’re Creatures of Habit".)
Quote: The researchers said they used the potentially controversial data only after any information that could identify individuals had been scrambled. Even so, they wrote, people’s wanderings are so subject to routine that by using the patterns of movement that emerged from the research, “we can obtain the likelihood of finding a user in any location.”
At the risk of appearing completely "old school", I offer these 2 links (here & here) as a sidebar.
Alternative title for this post: "Privacy? What Privacy?"
Link to Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, "When a Cell Phone Is More than a Phone: Protecting Your Privacy in the Age of the Super-Phone". (Originally posted in August 2005; updated October 2006.)
Link to alphabetical list of topics.
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