Mobile phones reveal its users more accurately than fingerprints

Male researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Louvain in a new study that 95% of mobile phone users can be identified based on their movements and their positions through their more accurate than fingerprints.

The researchers do an analysis of the data is reached 1.5 million users faceless, where the study relied on tracking sites mobile phones when the user to receive or make calls or upon receipt of SMS, through technology recognized by the intelligence agencies called the spatial and temporal aggregation any assembly temporal and spatial.

The researchers discovered that 95% of users unidentified easy knowing their life styles and their movements conclusion coming, and even their names, too.

The many applications installed on smart phones such as "Facebook" and "Twitter" and "Foursquare" do similar studies, so when they ask determine the user's location, and the use of such geographical information is not only to allow the user to obtain the advantages of the application, but also help advertisers focus advertising campaigns on certain areas without the other.

The company has the "Apple" recently updated its privacy policy, where they can share data temporal and spatial location of the user "iPhone" with its partners and licensees to do so.

It is worth mentioning that the tracking technology used in the study works even if the mobile phone is closed, and the only way to prevent the phone from sending signals industries is to remove the battery completely.