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Four billion little brothers?: privacy, mobile phones, and ubiquitous data collection

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 52, Issue 11

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1592761.1592778

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Participatory sensing technologies could improve our lives and our communities, but at what cost to our privacy?

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