4 ms·

You can't understand patterns from random data. Am I missing something you're seeing?

• jackcarter 12y ago
  They can still understand when anonymous shoppers arrive and when they leave. However, I think zaroth is underestimating how much more useful it is to track an individual shopper's visits over time.
  • nolite 12y ago
    If the devices now send a random address for each probe request, you can't even do that anymore... all you'll have is a database full of single requests for a ton of random macaddress
• zaroth 12y ago
  Traffic analysis and some statistical methods should give you a lot of interesting data. Yes it's not individualized long-term tracking, but you can figure out when and where people are visiting, and I think even tease out how long people spend at each point, even if the MAC is randomized for each request.