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From the page: "Anyone can read the documentation first hand, but the layman's explanation seems to be that by use of several seemingly simple data-mining algorithms, they scan through call logs made on AT&T's network that scan the connections between phone numbers. The process seems to work like a game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon's game, where folks are judged by what the paper calls "guilt by association."
nice use of social mapping...

