Yikes, the creepy online ads that follow your offline real world activities finally caught up to me after successfully evading this for 5 years. It appears to be a Bluetooth information leak exploited by the Twitter app to display an Apple App Store ad.
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I agree with that. I think there is more going on behind the scenes than we care to admit, and we peeked behind the curtain with Facebook ads. I wouldn't put it past *any* corp to eavesdrop for cash. People grant app permissions all the time cause we like tapping yes and agree
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It's already an established industry. In this case, the cell phone in question had it's WiFi enabled. The restaurant has WiFi, the WiFi vendor collects MACs & other data and uploads it. Phone was on cell data, but Geo, MAC, & other info were matched. https://smart-places.org/mobile-location-analytics-opt-out/about-mobile-location-analytics-technology/ …
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It'd be nice if we could do the eavesdropping ourselves, using our own daemon. Less inferring, more control, could monetize our privacy
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I thought about that for a while. If there was a way to self monetize our data and select what we give out. We'd hand out bits and chunks as currency to purchase goods & services online. Sounds like some crazy startup pitch that might work if you add 'dark' and 'crypto' to it.
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Agreed. I was on a call with a FB business friend. We discussed a topic. Within a few hours he got an ad for that topic despite never having searched for that topic - as it was new to him. "Microphone-Creepy"
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