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thundara  ·  4217 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Has Big Data Made Anonymity Impossible?

    Last year Adam Sadilek, a University of Rochester researcher, and John Krumm, an engineer at Microsoft’s research lab, showed they could predict a person’s approximate location up to 80 weeks into the future, at an accuracy of more than 80%. To get there, the pair mined what they described as a “massive data set” collecting 32,000 days of GPS readings taken from 307 people and 396 vehicles.

"I believe I can see the future, 'cause I repeat the same routine."