If they were interested in my location they could request location data. What are the odds they are doing this to directly market products to people based on health data?

Inb4 “They already do that based on what you regularly purchase”

Of course, yes they do. This appears to be one more layer on top of it. And surely they wouldn’t share that information with the pharmacy, right?

  • @j4k3
    5•7 months ago

    I wish we had away to set up devices so they never need the WiFi handshake paradigm. Something like rolling code encryption for home and desired connection points while the device and home access point drop all that are not in sync and masquerade as a thousand others.

    Not that it would make a difference when the hardware for the SoC and modem are undocumented, untrusted, and user space info is irrelevant to the actual hardware function. We can’t even turn off our devices any more in the Orwellian dystopia Osama bin Laden used to win the fight against freedom, liberty, and democracy.

    • Natanael
      2•7 months ago

      Both wifi and Bluetooth has better anonymity options now via randomized client IDs, etc, but yeah I’d also like to see even better protocols.

      Instead of just using antenna arrays for MIMO to maximize throughput you could instead use the arrays to reduce the signal strength for most traffic below the noise floor (like GPS) to make tracking much much harder. But it does add a lot of complexity too, and would probably be bad for batteries (the receiving end needs more power).