Stealing Reality: When Criminals Become Data Scientists
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Yaniv Altshuler,1, 2 Nadav Aharony,1 Yuval Elovici,2, 3 Alex Pentland,1 and Manuel Cebrian1, 4 The Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel Department of Information Systems Engineering, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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