Violation of privacy or useful information?
Apart from being a little scary privacy wise I thought this was just plain cool data and perfect to do a little data visualisation with. Check out the interactive Tableau dashboard on Malte Spitz's call habits yourself and play with his data here: http://goo.gl/aXyWP.
Granted, this looks like a massive violation of privacy but let's take a breath and think for a second before we jump to conclusions. It wasn't the telco who maliciously released the data but the politician who requested and then published it on a newspaper so I fail to see the threat to be honest.
Of course companies are collecting data on our product usage and if you look at the data for a second from a telco's point of view and assume it's not just one person's data, then it becomes clear that the data contains quite a lot of information that could be used to either improve service quality in certain geographic regions or offer extended support hours for some services for example.
On the other hand, there are companies that are just collecting data for the sake of collecting data without a clear plan of how they're going to use it to improve their products and services - in my eyes that's the true issue here and much more of a problem than the collection of potentially sensible data in general.
DrSokoloff
#2 — 15. Mai 2012, 10:46 Uhr
Could government use mobile tracking data for urban planning?
For example, by tracking how people move around one can get a better estimate of transportation needs, see traffic between various cities by all modes (plane, car, rail, bike) and then adjust train/bus schedules, adapt transportation network, look up optimal locations for residential areas etc. I'm pretty sure there are many other ways to use this data for everyone's benefit.
Violation of privacy or useful information?Apart from being a little scary privacy wise I thought this was just plain cool data and perfect to do a little data visualisation with. Check out the interactive Tableau dashboard on Malte Spitz's call habits yourself and play with his data here: http://goo.gl/aXyWP.Granted, this looks like a massive violation of privacy but let's take a breath and think for a second before we jump to conclusions. It wasn't the telco who maliciously released the data but the politician who requested and then published it on a newspaper so I fail to see the threat to be honest.Of course companies are collecting data on our product usage and if you look at the data for a second from a telco's point of view and assume it's not just one person's data, then it becomes clear that the data contains quite a lot of information that could be used to either improve service quality in certain geographic regions or offer extended support hours for some services for example.On the other hand, there are companies that are just collecting data for the sake of collecting data without a clear plan of how they're going to use it to improve their products and services - in my eyes that's the true issue here and much more of a problem than the collection of potentially sensible data in general. DrSokoloff#2 — 15. Mai 2012, 10:46 UhrCould government use mobile tracking data for urban planning?
For example, by tracking how people move around one can get a better estimate of transportation needs, see traffic between various cities by all modes (plane, car, rail, bike) and then adjust train/bus schedules, adapt transportation network, look up optimal locations for residential areas etc. I'm pretty sure there are many other ways to use this data for everyone's benefit.
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