The data hidden in our movements could be giving away more than think

4 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker explains how advances in AI and deep learning have transformed previously harmless data into highly informative signals. A recent study demonstrated that motion data—such as the way a person moves—can not only uniquely identify an individual but also predict a range of personal attributes, including age, gender, race, education level, and even political affiliation, with statistical accuracy. The findings highlight a new privacy risk: everyday movement patterns can reveal sensitive personal information when processed by powerful AI models.

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AI is really changing. It's changing what data means. It's changing, you know, now what was benign data is now actually very informative when a deep learning system can process these big blocks of information and learn things about people. The one last thing I'll say about this study was that there was a follow-up study that was just presented a week ago. The research team looked at correlations between your motion data and other characteristics. And what they were able to do is not just uniquely identify an individual, but from a little bit of your motion data, but predict your age, your gender, your race, your level of education. They were even able to predict with statistical accuracy your political affiliation just from your motion data.