Motion profile
A movement profile is a data set created by collecting and linking data, which makes it possible to understand the movements (possibly even actions) of a person and thus to monitor them.
By linking personal data from different sources chronologically with one another, it is possible to trace when a person was in which location, what they bought there, for example, and which telephone calls were made.
Sources can be the cellular networks (radio cells) with which, for example, a cell phone from the network provider can be located relatively precisely. With the GPS satellite navigation system, positioning works to within a few centimeters, and position data can also be determined with WLAN or Bluetooth.
Because such movement profiles are personal data, it is only permitted with the consent of the person concerned and is bound by legal requirements.
Approaches to contain the COVID-19 pandemic are based on movement profiles , which are created using cell phone data from many users (see: COVID-19 app ).
Data sources for profiling
Depending on the purpose, the following options are available for geographic and behavioral tracking:
- Tracking customers and their purchasing behavior using customer cards
- Tracking of customers using RFID chips on department store goods or electronic tickets, e.g. B. in public transport
- in criminology when merging a person's whereabouts (e.g. credit card bills ) or
- by pointing by of radio signals , u. a. by prosecuting Einbuchungen for mobile phones in a GSM - mobile network
- in real time through tracking using position- sending GPS tracking devices or similar.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Explanation of the movement profile . Mobile phone sector - the information portal on media for young people. Retrieved March 14, 2014.
- ↑ Coronavirus: Cell phone movement profiles to contain the epidemic. In: aerzteblatt.de. March 17, 2020, accessed April 19, 2020 .