roofuskit comments on Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

Especially since cell phones randomize macs for privacy. Been doing that for years.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

I don't think watches, earbuds and other Bluetooth devices do. Also typically the MAC is per SSID/device

The reason they are hard to track is that you would need to track thousands of devices and then somehow correlate all of it. They are really only useful if you are trying to target someone but even at that there are easier ways.

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[–] dickalan@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

Hey, you may have not heard of it, but there’s this thing called computers that do this job without breaking a sweat, this engineering problem has already solved, holy cow you underestimate people‘s desire to do horrible stuff.

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