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zoklet-enjoyertoday at 3:23 PM3 repliesview on HN

I read an article in 2012 about the feds (DHS?) placing Bluetooth enabled devices along I5 in Seattle. They were able to make profiles of people based on what Bluetooth devices they had in their cars. Is anyone familiar with this? I've periodically tried to Google it and can't find anything about it


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parpfishtoday at 3:37 PM

I remember an art exhibit by an online privacy activist made where it’d ping people’s phones to get a list of “known WiFi networks” and then display them on a screen in a room.

Each person would get a unique fingerprint of named network locations

post_breaktoday at 3:59 PM

I believe Houston used bluetooth to measure congestion on 45.