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Re:Apple re-enables Bluetooth on every OS update on purpose by tinus_hn on Friday July 22, 2022 @03:16PM (#32196005)
Apple cannot ‘location track you’ using Bluetooth. How do you imagine that’d work?
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Re:Apple re-enables Bluetooth on every OS update on purpose by apahwa on Friday July 22, 2022 @05:32PM (#32197368)
This is not new or secret.

first result on Google https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/14/opinion/bluet...

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Re:Apple re-enables Bluetooth on every OS update on purpose by tinus_hn on Saturday July 23, 2022 @12:12AM (#32200281)
That’s third parties, not Apple, tracking people in a way that was blocked by Apple years ago. Apple devices rotate their Bluetooth MAC address regularly so they cannot be identified from the beacons.
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Re:Apple re-enables Bluetooth on every OS update on purpose by vdqtp3 on Friday July 22, 2022 @04:29PM (#32196753)
Yeah, next he'll be telling us he's getting stalked by "tracking chips" from Apple that use Bluetooth. How ridiculous, right? /s
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Re:Apple re-enables Bluetooth on every OS update on purpose by sli on Friday July 22, 2022 @03:25PM (#32196105)
Not claiming they do it, but it seems quite possible to triangulate a coarse location via Bluetooth using other phones with their location services enabled. I tinkered with something similar in college, just using little BLE beacons intended for this kind of thing instead of phones.
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