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This paper looks really clever, and I'd like to read it. Just a thought about something that jumped off the page at me on a once-over: > Imagine someone wants
by bjt2n3904 6y ago
This paper looks really clever, and I'd like to read it. Just a thought about something that jumped off the page at me on a once-over:
> Imagine someone wants to illegally track the position (and implicitely the time spent) by someone into a laboratory [...]
The legality of analyzing WiFi frames is a bit orthogonal to this. Analyzing these packets (in my book) is fair game. It's no different than youtube-dl -- if you send me the data, you can't forbid me from saving it for personal use, or analyzing it.
If you transmit something, and don't want it to be analyzed, the data must be end-to-end encrypted. I don't like the idea of "protecting" such data with a law that says, "this data is illegal to look at".
- rck 6y agoIt's probably legal in most of the US, but almost certainly runs afoul of the GDPR in the EU. Location data is personal data, and companies can't (in the EU and maybe CA) and shouldn't (everywhere) collect it without your consent. People should use crypto because they shouldn't trust the laws to work. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't have laws constraining personal data collection.
- anigbrowl 6y agoAs a practical matter (and referencing EU law as this paper seems to), you can analyze it all you like but you can't act upon it.