Re-identification risk versus data utility for aggregated mobility research using mobile phone location data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Yin, Ling ^a   Wang, Qian ^a   Shaw, Shih Lung ^b,c   Fang, Zhixiang ^c   Hu, Jinxing ^a   Tao, Ye ^d   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; DATA PROCESSING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MASS COMMUNICATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOBILE PHONE; MOBILE PHONE LOCATION DATA; PHYSICAL MOBILITY; PRIVACY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REIDENTIFICATION RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAVEL;

CELL PHONES; CHINA; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PRIVACY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRAVEL;

EID: 84948991220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140589     Document Type: Article

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