When does the simple digital tracking of your
location and movements — the GPS bleeps from most of our smartphones —
start to be truly revealing? When do the data points and inferences that
can be drawn from it strongly suggest, say, trips to a psychiatrist, a
mosque, an abortion clinic, a strip club or an AIDS treatment center?
The answer, according to a new research paper,
is about a week, when the data portrait of a person becomes
sufficiently detailed to qualify as an “unreasonable search” and a
potential violation of an individual’s Fourth Amendment rights.
read full article at The NY Times http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/31/quantifying-privacy-a-week-of-location-data-may-be-unreasonable-search/?_php=true&_type=blogs&hpw&rref=technology&_r=0
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