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Mobile Phone Use Patterns: The New Fingerprint

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Feed Name: Security Ledger

Date Published: 2013-03-26

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Paul Roberts

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Researchers analyzed 15 months of anonymized mobile carrier data for 1.5 million users and found that just a few spatio-temporal points (as few as four) can uniquely identify most individuals, revealing high uniqueness of human mobility and significant privacy risks; the article discusses implications for legislation and data protection.

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