On the privacy-conscientious use of mobile phone data
Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, Sébastien Gambs, Vincent D. Blondel, Geoffrey Canright, Nicolas de Cordes, Sébastien Deletaille, Kenth Engø‐Monsen, Manuel García–Herranz, Jake Kendall, Cameron F Kerry, Gautier Krings, Emmanuel Letouzé, Miguel Angel Luengo-Oroz, Nuria Oliver, Luc Rocher, Alex Rutherford, Zbigniew Smoreda, Jessica E. Steele, Erik Wilhelm Wetter, Alex Pentland · Scientific Data · 2018
The breadcrumbs we leave behind when using our mobile phones—who somebody calls, for how long, and from where—contain unprecedented insights about us and our societies. Researchers have compared the recent availability of large-scale behavioral datasets, such as the ones generated by mobile phones, to the invention of the microscope, giving rise to the new field of computational social science.