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Re:How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook? by Gigachad on Monday December 19, 2022 @09:11PM (#34060687)
You need location to scan for Bluetooth in app, because scanning for Bluetooth was how advertisers got your location. You don’t need this to interact with a Bluetooth device, the user can connect to it from the settings.
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Re:How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook? by Dylan16807 on Monday December 19, 2022 @09:38PM (#34060860)
And if it's a Bluetooth Low Energy device that doesn't use connections?
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Re:How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook? by hbossy on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @03:07AM (#34063002)
Especially if it's BLE. Commercial sites are full of tags that advertise their MACs. Phone app reads this and use it to deduce where you are. You can try something similar yourself with WiFi using Google geolocation API.
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