What is reality mining?
According to Wikipedia, reality mining is the collection and analysis of machine-sensed environmental data pertaining to human social behavior, with the goal of identifying predictable patterns of behavior. It was declared, by Technology Review Magazine, to be one of the "10 technologies most likely to change the way we live".
Reality mining studies human interactions based on the usage of wireless devices such as mobile phones and GPS systems which provides more of an accurate picture of what people do, where they go, and who they communicate with, rather than from more subjective sources such as a person's own account. Reality mining is one aspect of digital footprint analysis.
I found a video, on the Science Channel, that you can watch here on reality mining.
I actually found it rather diturbing as I am not sure whether it is a good thing that I can be tracked where ever I go.
"If all this movement-tracking sounds invasive, that's because it is, privacy advocates say. Guilherme Roschke, a staff attorney at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, in Washington, D.C., says that while reality mining may have some legitimate uses, it can also be abused. He's also concerned when people are monitored without their consent. "There is a lot of new information being collected, and it brings significant new capabilities, some of which are privacy-infringing," Roschke says. "The first thing is to let people know this data is being collected, and how it's going to be used. And whenever it's put to a new use, then it must be disclosed." " (Hesseldahl, 2008)
On the otherhand it would be very useful to use on my girls when they become teenages!
Hesseldahl, A (March 24, 2008). There is Gold in Reality Mining. Retrieved September 1st, 2012 from http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2008-03-24/theres-gold-in-reality-miningbusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice
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