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tagabek
on May 11, 2013
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Sniffing tool for capturing WiFi location data dis...
Something like this seems... illegal. Isn't this type of data farming only allowed after explicit permission of the user?
evan_
on May 11, 2013
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What would be illegal about it? The phone is advertising the MACs, just the same as if you wore a shirt that had your home address on it.
rmc
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Storing personally identifiable data about people is covered and controlled by EU Data Protection law. Broadly, you have to have a legitimate, legal, proportional reason for storing personal data on people. You probably need their consent.
deepinsand
on May 11, 2013
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Sadly this has already been happening for a while:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/21/euclid-the-google-analytics...
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