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BBC 4 with the help of a smart app tracks the spread of a theoretical pandemic:
There are already a number of quite sophisticated models in use to predict flu activity which cover a number of variables in real time and google also tracks searches linked to flu to provide real time estimates. Working with real time data already provides far more accurate prediction than using historical data about the behaviour and spread of the disease.
The scientists and the people funding them know what they can learn from it, even if you are unaware of it.This won't really tell us anything we don't know
They do so by tracking.In this “experiment” they are not actually tracking anything its simply looking at person contact among smart phone users