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Free ubiquitous Wi-Fi would be an effective tool for tracking citizens' internet habits and physical locations.
by cpeterso 11y ago
Free ubiquitous Wi-Fi would be an effective tool for tracking citizens' internet habits and physical locations.
- witty_username 11y agoAnd that's why the world needs to switch to HTTPS.
- chrisfosterelli 11y agoHTTPS wouldn't necessarily help with this. You can track on the station's MAC address, rather than the content of their HTTP connections.
- jauer 11y agoHTTPS has no bearing on the ability to track traffic volume, sites visited (DNS), and device location (mac address).
- witty_username 11y agoCorrect. It's still better than nothing I guess.
- draugadrotten 11y agoThere are Swedish cities tracking citizens using mac tracking technology already. Vasteras comes to mind. https://translate.google.se/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.idg.se%2F2.1085%2F1.606293%2Fsvenska-tekniken-som-sparar-dig-pa-stan&edit-text=&act=url https://translate.google.se/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev=... http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.606293/svenska-tekniken-som-sparar-dig-pa-stan http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.606293/svenska-tekniken-som-spara...
- kwhitefoot 11y agoThe company makes the usual claim that because they hash your MAC address that your privacy is assured. Of course if you have the database and someone's MAC all you have to do is hash it and look it up.