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> If my neighbour scans my WiFi network and uploads it to BeaconDB I didn’t exactly opt-in, did I?

To clarify: all phones doing geolocation are already uploading your AP macaddr to remote location services, but BeaconDB will *not* publish this information in cleartext.

Any data dump will contain only non-reversible cryptographically hashed data or aggregated data.

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