摘要

<正>In a new study out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,health researchers make the case for using real-time cell-phone data to track and mitigate major disease outbreaks.Unfortunately,several barriers—including privacy concerns and a lack of data legislation—are likely to stop this kind of information from ever getting to researchers.Earlier this year,researchers at MIT set out to see if they could reasonably predict how a disease might move through a city by looking at commute routes.