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I’m not sure if I understand your project correctly, but can this fix the issue with tracking people by location from their phones? Either way it’s a cool proje
by devjab 2y ago
I’m not sure if I understand your project correctly, but can this fix the issue with tracking people by location from their phones? Either way it’s a cool project.
I’m Danish, I think the only way to really prevent mass surveillance through WiFi is through laws and legislation. It used to be legal to track people here, but thankfully it’s not anymore. I still remember when there was an outcry from smaller municipalities when they could no longer track people on their “walking streets”. I’m not sure if you have those in other countries but they are basically the “central” street with a lot of shops that are only for pedestrians. Virtually every Danish city has one, larger cities have multiple. Anyway, smaller cities used to track people to see which parts of those streets were popular and which weren’t.
Now they didn’t exactly do it for sinister reasons as such. Our smaller cities have issues with what is called “city death” where their “waking streets” lose shops because people go to larger malls. Then they might add a play ground or other cultural things, or even help shops with rents in order to increase an even popularity in their “waking streets”.
Despite their good intention it was still mass scale surveillance.
- wolvesechoes 2y ago> It used to be legal to track people here, but thankfully it’s not anymore. It not legal anymore, except when you are big enough or you are the one that decides what is legal or not.