To read the anonymous log of calls made via smartphones and rebuild names, addresses, relationships and even the health conditions of their respective owners: this is what two Stanford researchers have recently managed by correlating phone metadata (such as the user's geographic location, the duration and frequency of calls and the contact numbers) with other publicly accessible information via social networks, search engines or web portals. This result clearly demonstrates the potential of Big Data: large amounts of data, seemingly independent from[…]
