Writing in Nature, an international team led by researchers from the Massachusetts Institue of Technology found that data derived from mobile phone networks, using just the location of radio masts, could identify the vast majority of people from just four pieces of information.
via Online anonymity: impossible after four phone calls – Telegraph.
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