Cell phone users secretly tracked in study (AP/CNN)

[eppur_se_muova]

WASHINGTON (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.

It also yielded somewhat surprising results that reveal how little people move around in their daily lives. Nearly three-quarters of those studied mainly stayed within a 20-mile-wide circle for half a year.

The scientists would not disclose where the study was done, only describing the location as an industrialized nation.

Researchers used cell phone towers to track individuals' locations whenever they made or received phone calls and text messages over six months.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/04/cell.tracking.ap/index.html

[Ian David]

1. Wouldn't it be funny if the study was done on an island? n/t

[dweller]

2. just a test , ya know. . .

that they can extrapolate what...?

i surmise if i don't want to be found, step one: toss the cell phone in one direction.
step two: move quickly in another direction.

since i don't have a cell-phone, i'm free.
Catch me if you can }(
dp