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Editorial
. 2018 Dec 11:5:180286.
doi: 10.1038/sdata.2018.286.

On the privacy-conscientious use of mobile phone data

Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye  1   2 , Sébastien Gambs  3 , Vincent Blondel  4 , Geoffrey Canright  5 , Nicolas de Cordes  6 , Sébastien Deletaille  7 , Kenth Engø-Monsen  5 , Manuel Garcia-Herranz  8 , Jake Kendall  9 , Cameron Kerry  2 , Gautier Krings  4   7 , Emmanuel Letouzé  2   10 , Miguel Luengo-Oroz  11 , Nuria Oliver  10   12 , Luc Rocher  4 , Alex Rutherford  11 , Zbigniew Smoreda  6 , Jessica Steele  13   14 , Erik Wetter  14   15   16 , Alex Sandy Pentland  2 , Linus Bengtsson  14
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Editorial

On the privacy-conscientious use of mobile phone data

Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye et al. Sci Data. .

Abstract

The breadcrumbs we leave behind when using our mobile phones—who somebody calls, for how long, and from where—contain unprecedented insights about us and our societies. Researchers have compared the recent availability of large-scale behavioral datasets, such as the ones generated by mobile phones, to the invention of the microscope, giving rise to the new field of computational social science.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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Figure 1. Matrix of the four models for the privacy-conscientious use of mobile phone data.
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