XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android   
   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   Carlos E.R.  wrote:   
   > On 2025-12-08 14:50, Marian wrote:   
   [...]   
   > > Imagine this scenario:   
   > > 1. A company collects BSSIDs (MACs) from Wi-Fi routers in a city. 2.   
   > > Over time, they build a database:   a. MAC A -> seen at 123 Elm Street   
   > > in 2022   b. MAC A -> seen at 456 Oak Avenue in 2023   
   > > 3. From this, they infer the household at 123 Elm Street likely   
   > >    moved to 456 Oak Avenue.   
   > >   
   > > Now scale that up: Track migration patterns of entire neighborhoods.   
   > > Correlate MACs with census data, property records, or advertising IDs.   
   > > What was just public information becomes a de facto surveillance system,   
   > > without meaningful consent from the people being tracked.   
   >   
   > Yes, this is true.   
      
     No, it's not. As you said, it's not people, but households and, as   
   others have said, it's not even households, but *devices* (Access   
   Points).   
      
     The *Access Point* has moved and that could be for all kinds of   
   reasons. The AP might be re-used by someone else. The household may have   
   been split up (someone(s) moved out), so the household did not move.   
   Etc., etc..   
      
     Devices are not people, at least not yet.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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