Bruce Schneier has written a disturbing piece on how your cellphone could literally give out all sorts of information about your life to dataminers:
Eagle’s Realty Mining project logged 350,000 hours of data over nine months about the location, proximity, activity and communication of volunteers, and was quickly able to guess whether two people were friends or just co-workers….
He and his team were able to create detailed views of life at the Media Lab, by observing how late people stayed at the lab, when they called one another and how much sleep students got.
Given enough data, Eagle’s algorithms were able to predict what people — especially professors and Media Lab employees — would do next and be right up to 85 percent of the time.
It always amazes me what kind of information you can get with just traffic analysis, without even knowing the content of the traffic. This could be a very dangerous “service” the cell phone companies could cell to corporations. I can even forsee a free telephone subscription whereby you agree to let the cell phone companies sell your information. Also I forsee enough morons signing up for it therefore making it plausible. *sigh*
Is there something you can recomend me to do to stop my cell phone from being traced?