The Next Major Version of Bluetooth Might Help Advertisers Track Your Smartphone Faster
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Let’s not pretend this feature didn’t trickle down the data harvesting dog-hydrant to us peons solely for our benefit.
Oh get a grip. I very much doubt phones will be giving out their exact location to devices they’re not connected to.
Uhhh that exact technology has been in use for years. Your phone broadcasts/receivers a beacon at regular intervals while Bluetooth is on. Anyone can pick it up if they are looking.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/14/opinion/bluetooth-wireless-tracking-privacy.html
The process is so streamlined companies bragged your advertising profile is updated before you check out.
This kind of monitoring and association technology is so advanced that Target famously had to turn it down because it was creeping out customers.
How about a version that successfully connects to my car’s sound system right away, every time?
Anything car related with BT is almost always the car’s fault. They use shit hardware and don’t care about the software because no one can do anything about it. No one is picking their car based on the BT support.
