Algorithm to predict crimes through mobile phone tracker

Mobile Phones Tracker for Crime Prediction

Apart from that turn off your smartphone GPS mobile device continues to generate information that captures each station that the user is going through and turn each base station is geo-referenced. Therefore it would be possible to locate the spatial coordinates of the person using the phone tracker.

A researcher from the University of Birmingham developed an algorithm of computing, able to predict crime. Thanks to monitoring the activity of mobile phones. It’s Mirco Musolesi, who was the winner of the challenge Nokia, contest. Who won precisely processing activity of cell phone data and building predictive models on the action of users.

GPS Phone Tracker

And it was in this study which based on Musolesi give evidence. As it is about the possibility of the algorithm in the fight against crime. it is done through the monitoring of the activity of 25 volunteers in Switzerland. Moreover to capture data from the GPS in their smartphones with their respective shipments and receive text messages. The calls and record information is also processed to generate a predictive model. As a result, know where volunteers were on their way or where square meters were located with an accuracy of 20.

Even deleting data from the GPS algorithm continued with the predictions (a little more defective). But in spaces of thousand square meters also. If added data from friends that users had a relationship with, precision could be strengthened.

Spy Apps / Tracker Apps

For the researcher, beyond that turn off your smartphone GPS. The mobile device continues to generate information that captures each station. As the user is going through and turns each base station is geo-referenced. Therefore it would be possible to locate the spatial coordinates of the person using the cell phone without the need to take action (“click”, police jargon) device.

According to the scholar, this advancement would be an effective tool in the prevention of crime. The idea of Musolesi is to perfect the algorithm and use the data provided to help the police in tracking suspects. Who is making strange movements can be inferred that they are committing a crime.

In the words of the man from the University of Birmingham.

“if it has a good network “you can identify the street, block, and House” “.

It also would look for patterns of movements or suggest future displacements of people suspected into unusual areas. The intention of Musolesi provides your feed to the police and also runs side to test the scope and possibilities of the algorithm.

This project is not the only one that uses data mining to prevent crimes. For example, Facebook uses algorithms that attempt to discover fraudulent users. Moreover, potential sexual offenders through the analysis of keywords in their chats contrasted with the age of the users with which to converse. Or to cite cases that were movie material as “Public Enemy” of 1998. The analysis makes the NSA (National Security Agency) on terms that can refer to threats considered terrorists to the U.S. Government.

All these developments regarding phone tracker, step by the thin edge of the invasion of privacy. Cornice which can fall if they transgress the boundaries of the original objectives of prevention and protection.

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