(Imagen 4)
(Part of the biometric product marketing expert series)
Some don’t believe that geolocation is a valid factor of identity/verification/authentication.
Some do.
If you ignore what Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye et al said about the validity of 12 fingerprint minutiae points in their 2013 study (cited in phys.org), their conclusions about cell phone locations deserve consideration.
“By analyzing 15 months of cell phone mobility data from 1.5 million people, researchers have found that only four spatio-temporal points (an individual’s approximate whereabouts at the approximate time when they’re using their cell phone) are all that’s needed to uniquely identify 95% of the individuals.”
Why?
“[T]he researchers’ data shows that just four spatio-temporal points are needed to uniquely identify the mobility trace of an individual. In other words, it’s not likely that someone else will be in the same locations as you are at four different times of day.”
And once you perform multi-factor authentication by combining geolocation with another factor, such as an address or a social media post, privacy disappears.
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