> Google, in its wisdom, has tied "Location" into things like BLE Scanning and WiFi scanning. The excuse is that you can use these things as a proxy for location. That is, if I know you are near access point X your location is probably near Y.
There’s a reason Apple Maps says “enable WiFi to improve location accuracy”.
I’m incredibly annoyed that phones don’t report themselves with randomized Mac addresses. WiFi tracking is pervasive.
> I’m incredibly annoyed that phones don’t report themselves with randomized Mac addresses. WiFi tracking is pervasive.
You've got it backwards. The phone isn't being tracked, the phone is the one doing the tracking. The phone is looking at all the wifi APs it can see and then looking those up in a database.
Nobody sees the phone's MAC address. It isn't broadcasting anything at all.
There’s a reason Apple Maps says “enable WiFi to improve location accuracy”.
I’m incredibly annoyed that phones don’t report themselves with randomized Mac addresses. WiFi tracking is pervasive.