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> Their results revealed Shopkick ultrasonic beacons at 4 of 35 stores in two European cities. The situation isn't that worrisome, as users have to open an app
by tokenizerrr 9y ago
> Their results revealed Shopkick ultrasonic beacons at 4 of 35 stores in two European cities. The situation isn't that worrisome, as users have to open an app with the Shopkick SDK for the beacon to be picked up.
Wouldn't it be far easier to just transmit a wifi SSID that encodes this information?
- bizzleDawg 9y agoI suspect they wanted to isolate it so that people walking past a store wouldn't be counted.