hello, i know this is a dumb question, but didnt find nothing about it on internet.
In terms of privacy, there are any bad thing about bluetooth earbuds? i bought mine in oppo but dont know if there exist any side of bad things about privacy. Someone can elucidate me?
When i said bad things, if oppo steal my data or something like that. yeah, dont know nothing. sorry about that.
thank you in advance
Another thing to think about which took me a bit: any BT is bad for privacy. So, we have to be cautious of when we use it. Something I used to do is drive to Target and throw my earbuds in to listen to a podcast while I shop. Having BT enabled anywhere near any of these places is not best privacy practice. They use the protocol to identify and track. So, basically, buy your buds from a smaller distributor and pay attention to when you have it enabled on your phone.
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted, because you’re not wrong. I guess you could have been a bit be more clear. A lot of shops use radio signal tracking (e.g. bluetooth, wifi) to track your physical location in the store.
Even without the apps mentioned in the article, the store can see a bluetooth device with a unique identifier (Bluetooth MAC address of your phone), walking through specific isles and how long you stand still at a section.
For best privacy: use wired headphones and put your phone in airplane mode