Mobile data mining and your privacy rights

The US public radio program Science Friday recently produced an interesting episode about the benefits and perils of collecting data from cellphones and other mobile electronic devices. That data could aid research in many different fields, but the personal privacy implications of mobile data mining are worrisome. (via Oxblood)

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