Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  De Montjoye, Yves Alexandre ^a,b   Hidalgo, César A ^a,c,d   Verleysen, Michel ^b   Blondel, Vincent D ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Instituto de Sistemas Complejos ISCV   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MOBILE PHONE; PRIVACY;

CELLULAR PHONE; DATABASES AS TOPIC; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PRIVACY;

EID: 84875822474     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01376     Document Type: Article

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