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Re:Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dange... by TeMPOraL on Monday October 05, 2015 @07:31PM (#10335737)
Does it now? By Wi-Fi tracking I'm thinking of SSID matching (which are public information), not pinging devices inside a single network.

Your data point about on-but-not-connected Wi-Fi supports both geotracking and SSID tracking. We need more data!

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Re:Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dange... by techdragon on Monday October 05, 2015 @08:12PM (#10335940)
Facebook harvests a mountain of data about you when you use the new Messenger app. I swear the only purpose it has as a separate app is to be far worse than they think they can get away with the main Facebook app being.

It's probably from the messenger data that they correlated your proximity.

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