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Glad to see the change in methodology! I loved the concept then and still do, but freaked out at the thought of my MAC address being logged everywhere I go.
by colinbartlett 12y ago
Glad to see the change in methodology! I loved the concept then and still do, but freaked out at the thought of my MAC address being logged everywhere I go.
- afar 12y agoWe're happy with the change too. Simplified things. Any sensor trying to mass measure foot traffic across a city needs to be accurate, real time, anonymous, and cheap.
- fennecfoxen 12y agoThis is presumably one reason why Apple has stopped broadcasting your real MAC address while doing SSID probes, instead randomizing it.
- afar 12y agoAnd Android followed suit. The policy change pretty much bifurcated the industry. Half died or sold themselves off - http://fortune.com/2014/10/29/after-a-blow-from-apple-nomi-sells-to-brickstream/ http://fortune.com/2014/10/29/after-a-blow-from-apple-nomi-s... The other half doubled down on MAC address tracking tech, arguing that it still generates meaningful data - http://www.euclidanalyticsblog.com/2014/08/beacons-and-wi-fi.html http://www.euclidanalyticsblog.com/2014/08/beacons-and-wi-fi... Although I've heard they've started to move toward video and facial recog. We were so small at the time of the announcement last June that we thought... "Why don't we just build a door counter. How fing hard could that be?" ...turns out it's like way, really fing hard. But here it is - http://i.imgur.com/zLUMAG8.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/zLUMAG8.jpg?1