Cell Users Don't Roam Too Far

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home.

The first-of-its-kind study by Northeastern University raises privacy and ethical questions for its monitoring methods, which would be illegal in the United States.

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Cell Users Don't Roam Too Far

It also yielded somewhat surprising results that reveal how little people move around in their daily lives. Nearly three- quarters of those studied mainly stayed within a 20-mile-wide circle for half a year.

The scientists would not say where th...

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