Smartphone Data at Scale: Small Devices, Big Opportunities, Bigger Risk

The mass adoption of smartphones offer us the opportunity to analyze real-world social networks and human behaviors at a fidelity and scale that previously was not possible. At the same time, these same capabilities pose new kinds of privacy and security issues. I give a brief overview of some of the opportunities and risks that we have encountered in our work, as well as some potential solutions for using big data approaches to help mitigate these concerns.