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FUD. Collecting randomised MAC addresses is hardly something I would worry about. And if you are paranoid you turn off the wifi.
by Temporary_31337 3y ago
FUD. Collecting randomised MAC addresses is hardly something I would worry about. And if you are paranoid you turn off the wifi.
- goodSteveramos 3y agoIf they don’t convey information why would they bother collecting it?
- ToucanLoucan 3y agoBecause 4/5ths of the tech sector has been built on the back of absurdly low interest rates and gesturing to the future, shrugging your shoulders and saying "monetizing user data"?
- jMyles 3y agoMaybe to follow users during a single discrete trip through the space?
- stemlord 3y agoI realize these are public spaces we're talking about but to what extent are we willing to have our bodies and behaviors amplified, stored, copied, and otherwise scrutinized before we're allowed to feel some inherent right to personal privacy has been violated
- Temporary_31337 3y agoIf all the things to worry in the world, even in the narrow subsection of data privacy which feels like a 1st world human right, this particular case is not the one to worry about. Worry about how much Meta and Alphabet know about you, worry about the governments, but not the roadsign. Feels like a distraction
- aembleton 3y agoIf they employed someone with a clicker to count the number of passers by would you feel that your privacy had been violated? What if they used a light beam that counted every time someone passed through it?
- bonton89 3y agoI guess mac address tracking is better than the facial recognition method K-Mart was using.
- goodSteveramos 3y agoI had the same thought but then the kiosk could do that and they wouldn’t need to transmit the MAC to their server.