The Rules of Contagion

(Greg DeLong) #1

  1. Shahani A., ‘Smartphones Are Used To Stalk, Control Domestic
    Abuse Victims’, National Public Radio, 15 September 2014.

  2. Hern A., ‘Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of
    secret US army bases’, The Guardian, 28 January 2014.

  3. Watts A.G. et al., ‘Potential Zika virus spread within and beyond
    India’, Journal of Travel Medicine, 2018; Bengtsson L. et al.,
    ‘Improved Response to Disasters and Outbreaks by Tracking
    Population Movements with Mobile Phone Network Data: A Post-
    Earthquake Geospatial Study in Haiti’, PLOS Medicine, 2011;
    Santi P. et al., ‘Quantifying the benefits of vehicle pooling with
    shareability networks’, PNAS, 2014.

  4. Chen M.K. and Rohla R., ‘The effect of partisanship and
    political advertising on close family ties’, Science, 2018; Silm S.
    et al., ‘Are younger age groups less segregated? Measuring
    ethnic segregation in activity spaces using mobile phone data’,
    Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2017; Xiao Y. et al.,
    ‘Exploring the disparities in park access through mobile phone
    data: Evidence from Shanghai, China’, Landscape and Urban
    Planning, 2019; Atlas of Inequality,
    https://inequality.media.mit.edu.

  5. Conlan A.J.K. et al., ‘Measuring social networks in British
    primary schools through scientific engagement’, Proceedings of
    the Royal Society B, 2010.

  6. Background on GPS brokers from: Harris R., ‘Your Apps Know
    Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret’,
    New York Times, 10 December 2018; Signoret P., Teemo, ‘la
    start-up qui traque 10 millions de Français en continu’, L’Express
    L’Expansion, 25 August 2018; ‘Is Geospatial Data a $100 Billion
    Business for SafeGraph?’ Nanalyze, 22 April 2017.

  7. Importantly, the target gave permission for their phone to be
    tracked. Source: Cox J., ‘I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He
    Located Our Phone’, Motherboard, 8 January 2019.

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