Study secretly tracks cell phone users outside US
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 13:56
in Mathematics & Economics
(AP) -- Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home. The first-of-its-kind study by Northeastern University raises privacy and ethical questions for its monitoring methods, which would be illegal in the United States.