Hello there,
Several years ago, a friend of mine was working for a large telco and
his job was to detect which clients had the worst networking experience.
To do that, the telco had this hadoop cluster, where it collected _tons_
of data from home users routers, and his job was to use ML to tell the
signal from the noise.
I remember seeing a sample csv from this data, which contained
_thousands_ of data fields (features) from each client.
I was _shocked_ by the amount of (meta)data they are able to pull from
home routers. These even included your wifi network name _and_ password!
(it's been several years since then).
And home users are _completely_ unaware of this.
So my question to you folks is:
- What's the policy regulations on this? I don't remember the features
(thousands) but I'm pretty sure you could some profiling with it.
- Is anyone aware of any public discussion on this? I have never seen it.
Thanks,
Giovane Moura
