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Re:Location-based ads are growing by supbitcoin on Monday March 05, 2018 @12:22AM (#16518943)
I don't get it, how would you identifity someone with their wifi turned on ?
Re:Location-based ads are growing by dillondoyle on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @05:56PM (#16540763)
And bluetooth beacons (which you can get geo position without having to pair) are uniquely identifiable and used by almost all big box stores..
Re:Location-based ads are growing by John_KZ on Monday March 05, 2018 @02:30AM (#16519394)
If the WiFi is on, you broadcast your MAC, which is uniquely identifiable unless you root your phone and install software to change this fact.
Re:Location-based ads are growing by zaarn on Monday March 05, 2018 @03:47AM (#16519666)
IIRC current android and iOS devices will probe Wifi using a randomized MAC and only use the real mac once connecting for realsies.
Re:Location-based ads are growing by michaelt on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:30AM (#16519832)

  researchers found that "the overwhelming majority of
  Android devices are not implementing the available
  randomization capabilities built into the Android OS,"
  which makes such Android devices trivial to track.
  [...]
  Apple, meanwhile, introduced MAC address randomization in
  iOS 8, only to break it in iOS 10. [...] its network probe
  broadcasts to include a distinct Information Element (IE),
  data added to Wi-Fi management frames to extend the Wi-Fi
  protocol.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/10/mac_address_randomi...

  four scholars from the US Naval Academy say they've
  managed to track 100% of all test smartphones, despite
  the devices using randomized MAC addresses. 
  [...]
  The novelty in our method is that we are sending RTS
  frames to IEEE 802.11 client devices, not APs, to
  extract a CTS response message which we derive the true
  global MAC address of that device.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researchers-b...