Author: B. Rose Huber, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

  • Cellphone location data shown to help track infectious disease

    Tracking mobile phone data is often associated with privacy issues, but these vast datasets could be the key to understanding how infectious diseases are spread seasonally, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Princeton University and Harvard University researchers used anonymous mobile phone records for more than 15 million…