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'Looking more closely at the way people move through cities', MIT Technology Review

'Tomorrow's cities: How big data is changing the world', BBC

'Final Report on the Broadway Corridor for Oakland Business Development Corporation', Oakland Business Development Corporation

Interview with author

'How Wireless Carriers Are Monetizing Your Movements', MIT Technology Review

'Verizon's 'Precision Market Insights' Data Mining Policy Raising Privacy Concerns', Huffington Post

'Fanalytics: Understanding More About Sports Fans', Verizon Wireless

'Study Finds Mobile Data Privacy Concerns Remain High; Awareness Growing', ITBusinessEdge.com

'Data Driven: New Program to Fix New York City's Streets', The Wall Street Journal

'How to Unjam Traffic', Slate

'Don’t need a Sat Nav? There’s still Waze to get to work', Commuting Expert

Using location-based demographic data purchased from mobile carriers, StreetLight Data provides insights into how people move through cities, and where they spend time. But as privacy concerns grow, what are the benefits for consumers?

StreetLight: making sense of local data