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. In a second set of records, researchers took another 206 cell phones that had tracking devices in them and got records for their locations every two hours over a week's time period.
Maybe its just me but I am pretty sure we have rights to protect us again stuff like this. Or maybe we don't. Ever since 9/11 we don't have rights anymore. The Constitution means nothing anymore. It should just be used as toilet paper. We are being secretly tracked for research. Sorry I don't believe that at all. Everyone is being tracked, and there is nothing you can do about it. The government threw a terrorist fear blanket over the country, in order to do stuff like track people's movement. If a group comes out and says that this is against the law, it can be quickly defended by throwing out some homeland security BS. Soon everyone will probably just have a implanted chip in them. This will make tracking much more easier.
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