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> If devices using iOS 13 start broadcasting a constantly changing bluetooth ID They've always done this. I think you have your threat model inverted. Beacon
by eunoia 7y ago
> If devices using iOS 13 start broadcasting a constantly changing bluetooth ID
They've always done this. I think you have your threat model inverted. Beacons aren't tracking phones around stores.
3rd party SDKs installed in apps are tracking user's indoor location via beacon triangulation and uploading that data. A subtle, but important difference.
- r00fus 7y agoShouldn't Apple ban apps using those SDKs? Is it identifiable from a source scan or binary trawl?
- eunoia 7y agoI think so, seems to be the logical progression of their crackdown on particularly egregious 3rd party analytics implementations.
- dpkonofa 7y agoThe issue is that there are legitimate uses for this type of code, though. For example, I have my home set up with tons of automations that change, for example, the color of the lights when I'm in the kitchen vs. when my wife is in the kitchen. She prefers warm lighting and I prefer the daytime lighting. It's the same technology, it's just being misused in these commercial instances, in my opinion. People don't actually know that they're agreeing to this type of usage.
- graeme 7y agoIn ios 13 they added bluetooth and wifi access as privacy toggles. Does this prevent this sort of tracking by apps if turned off?