Big Data Has Its Bluetooth in You 2
The New York Times reports on how stores use bluetooth beacons to track your every move. A snippet (emphasis added):
So a hidden industry of third-party location-marketing firms has proliferated in response. These companies take their beacon tracking code and bundle it into a toolkit developers can use.
The makers of many popular apps, such as those for news or weather updates, insert these toolkits into their apps. They might be paid by the beacon companies or receive other benefits, like detailed reports on their users.
June 21, 2019 at 12:01 pm
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June 22, 2019 at 8:20 pm
Huh?