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What I find interesting is that there has been very little talk about privacy concerns over iBeacon. I wonder why that's the case?
by newman314 13y ago
What I find interesting is that there has been very little talk about privacy concerns over iBeacon.
I wonder why that's the case?
- notatoad 13y agoWhat are the privacy concerns? as far as i know, it's a broadcast-only mechanism - your device doesn't respond to a beacon, if you don't want to broadcast anything don't set up an iBeacon.
- a-priori 13y agoThis is exactly it: a beacon just announces itself and provides its ID. It's up to an app on the receiving device to listen for the beacons it cares about and react to them. The beacon has no way of knowing which devices are listening or are in range of the beacon so there's no privacy issues I can think of.