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Re:Apple Maps vs. Google Maps by jabyess on Saturday July 10, 2021 @11:16AM (#27793925)
> Also PSA, if you use Bluetooth with your car, your city transport department is tracking you. Best of luck opting out of that or even finding who to contact.

Can you say more about this? I've never heard of it.

Re:Apple Maps vs. Google Maps by post_break on Saturday July 10, 2021 @11:26AM (#27794027)
Houston does it. They have bluetooth trackers on all the highways. They use it for determining congestion based on how often you can ping the same address. Keeps pinging? Gridlock. Pings once, traffic moving.
Re:Apple Maps vs. Google Maps by stjohnswarts on Monday July 12, 2021 @11:58PM (#27817505)
I wander if anyone has any proof it's being stored for future use or used for anything but general traffic data.
Re:Apple Maps vs. Google Maps by RyJones on Saturday July 10, 2021 @11:22AM (#27793993)
Not sure what they’re pointing to, but TPMS tracking is possible as well.

https://youtu.be/TDYoo7TGNcw

Re:Apple Maps vs. Google Maps by aunty_helen on Saturday July 10, 2021 @01:11PM (#27794881)
Sure, here's the one I've had experience with: https://addinsight.com.au/

They put powerful bluetooth sensors on poles or in roadside cabinets. They're pretty cheap to deploy so have become widely used.

Pretty much if you have two bluetooth devices talking to each other, you can be tracked by your bluetooth mac address. (Same as wifi networks and sniffing with wireshark etc)

Or if you have a device pinging with a non-random mac (ie your car).

If you've got an iphone and it's not actively being used, you get a random mac, no problems.

Re:Apple Maps vs. Google Maps by TecoAndJix on Saturday July 10, 2021 @07:23PM (#27797177)