It figures that I’d be upset about the lack of quality in the ETech presentations and walk right into an excellent talk by Nathan Eagle of MIT. Nathan’s research included giving phones to students and faculty at MIT that tracked location (both as a cell tower and as described by SMS), proximity to other Bluetooth-enabled phones, and the state of the phone such as talking or charging. Then the audience was floored by the ease of predicting behavior, inferring relationships, and determining personal attributes of the user.

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