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Re:A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognit... by mgberlin on Thursday May 11, 2017 @11:29AM (#14316769)
Only if your phone is locked and it is looking for all open wifi networks. If you unlock it or it is connected to a particular wifi network this is not true.
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Re:A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognit... by haddr on Thursday May 11, 2017 @11:35AM (#14316823)
No necessarily. If you are connected to some wifi and sending/receiving data, your MAC is still visible in the air.
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