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Ausma Bernot, PhD Candidate, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University

Not Big Brother, but close: a surveillance expert explains some of the ways we’re all being watched, all the time

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A group of researchers studied 15 months of human mobility movement data taken from 1.5 million people and concluded that just four points in space and time were sufficient to identify 95% of them, even when the data weren’t of excellent quality.

That was back in 2013.

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