A lot of stores track your movement through the store with the WiFi or bluetooth your phone sends out, unless you have that turned off. Since it’s “anonymous” not even stuff like the GDPR requires to notify anyone of this.
Not really. It doesn’t really rely on MAC adresses, it relies on your phone to constantly blast out “IS ANYONE HERE $HOME_NETWORK_NAME?” (or bluetoothely named “DYPROSIUMS AIRPODS!???”) and it just catches that and then uses classic triangulating to see where you are. They all do that to quickly connect to WiFi without you having to actually type in the SSID because that shits for nerds.
Would or is also a really good way to sniff WiFi passwords. If anybody says “Well yes, I am indeed $HOME_NETWORK_NAME” your phone just hands them the password. It’s probably wrong for THAT network but it does mean you can just collect a whole ass batch of home wifi passwords.
Especially given how many people don’t change shit about their ISP-provided network if you just cyle $common_standard_wifi_names you’re off to a good start to be able to easily infilitrate half your cities WiFi.
Ah, shops where I go are not even able to tell whether the beer I’m drinking while shopping is mine or I stole from the shop.
Though, they do annoy me when they say I should have left it outside. They do annoy me a lot.
A lot of stores track your movement through the store with the WiFi or bluetooth your phone sends out, unless you have that turned off. Since it’s “anonymous” not even stuff like the GDPR requires to notify anyone of this.
Also that’s going to get way worse
What if you have randomized MAC address for wifi? Will that solve it completely ?
Not really. It doesn’t really rely on MAC adresses, it relies on your phone to constantly blast out “IS ANYONE HERE $HOME_NETWORK_NAME?” (or bluetoothely named “DYPROSIUMS AIRPODS!???”) and it just catches that and then uses classic triangulating to see where you are. They all do that to quickly connect to WiFi without you having to actually type in the SSID because that shits for nerds.
Would or is also a really good way to sniff WiFi passwords. If anybody says “Well yes, I am indeed $HOME_NETWORK_NAME” your phone just hands them the password. It’s probably wrong for THAT network but it does mean you can just collect a whole ass batch of home wifi passwords.
Especially given how many people don’t change shit about their ISP-provided network if you just cyle $common_standard_wifi_names you’re off to a good start to be able to easily infilitrate half your cities WiFi.
They also use a heap of cameras with facial recognition to track you.
Ah, shops where I go are not even able to tell whether the beer I’m drinking while shopping is mine or I stole from the shop. Though, they do annoy me when they say I should have left it outside. They do annoy me a lot.