Human Routes

Privacy is defined anew by each generation. We become comfortable with revealing personal information depending on the demands of social norms. Whether it is idyll gossip or shopping habits being tracked at the grocery store, other people try to predict what we will do by studying what we appear to have done.

If we look closely at what it is people can learn about us, we see that we actually share lots of details about our activity. This study shows that knowing simple facts about the members of a population's current location can be used to predict future actions. This work can be applied to understanding daily movements and spread of infectious diseases.

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