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Police Bluetooth advertising packets rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago (8 children)

This is cyberpunk as hell, and awesome.

Unfortunately apple does not expose mac addresses to apps, so iPhone users can’t do it :(

[–] [email protected] 65 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Is there anything iphones can do besides scroll social media? Every time I hear about some cool new capability of phones this caveat is always present.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And rightfully so. Corporations will find every conceivable way to track you and no API will be left unused, including tracking MAC addresses of bluetooth devices around you, which is a relatively easy one.
However, you can absolutely allow an app to access that API so it can scan for those MACs.
Funny thing, as soon as the API is locked down and presented as an option to the user, companies stop using it since nobody wants to give bluetooth access to i.e. Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Maybe it's just a graphene thing, but BLE capabilities are granted on a per-app basis on my phone.

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