If you're on Android and want to see something scary, download BLE Scanner app, go to a busy intersection and see how quickly you'll have a lot of every device at that intersection (hundreds of them) in just a minute of scanning. Then go out to a rural country road with little traffic and wait for a car to drive by. You'll be able to pin point exactly which devices are in their car with individual mac addresses. Now imagine you're in the FBI and you have that ability and then also the ability to look up their license plate, or cameras in other places with Bluetooth logging capabilities, or facial recognition cameras, or, or, or. It would be super easy to identify a car, or person associated with each device. They've got us by the balls, there is no privacy with a cell phone.
If you're on Android and want to see something scary, download BLE Scanner app, go to a busy intersection and see how quickly you'll have a lot of every device at that intersection (hundreds of them) in just a minute of scanning. Then go out to a rural country road with little traffic and wait for a car to drive by. You'll be able to pin point exactly which devices are in their car with individual mac addresses. Now imagine you're in the FBI and you have that ability and then also the ability to look up their license plate, or cameras in other places with Bluetooth logging capabilities, or facial recognition cameras, or, or, or. It would be super easy to identify a car, or person associated with each device. They've got us by the balls, there is no privacy with a cell phone.
My point is it's not just the FBI that has the ability to do this stuff.
That stuff would be immediately transmitted to whatever company is mining that data.
Nevermind it's not all that important. The whole thing is just a fuckin show anyway.