Researchers Find Bluetooth Signals Can be Fingerprinted to Track Smartphones
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[–]iamonlyoneman 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
Good job researchers. Bluetooth signals are unique identifiers to every phone and have been used for tracking for literally ages but i guess hackernew has to print something.
[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
The FTC literally warned everyone about this in 2015.
https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/2015/04/privacy-trade-offs-retail-tracking
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