XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com   
      
   On Dec 8, 2025 at 3:06:50 PM MST, "Tyrone" wrote   
   :   
      
   > On Dec 8, 2025 at 3:25:02 PM EST, "Brock McNuggets"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Dec 8, 2025 at 10:26:55 AM MST, "Tyrone" wrote   
   >> :   
   >>   
   >>> On Dec 7, 2025 at 10:45:11 PM EST, "Marian"    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >>> The fundamental flaw here is that you are ASSUMING the move. Much more   
   likely   
   >>> is that I bought a new router and gave the old one to my friend at 456 Oak   
   >>> Street who needed a new(er) router. 6 months later he buys a new router and   
   >>> trashes the old one. Do you assume that I am now dead because the router   
   is no   
   >>> longer active?   
   >>>   
   >>> What if I sell it on eBay? It could end up anywhere in the world. Or my   
   >>> daughter moved out into an apartment and I gave her my old router?   
   >>>   
   >>> Tracking a router is NOT tracking ME, because my name is not associated   
   with   
   >>> it.   
   >>>   
   >>> And even if I DID move, so what?  I can buy a new router AND still sell the   
   >>> old one. Again, tracking a router is not tracking me.   
   >>>   
   >>> You are SO desperate here, it is laughable. I guarantee that people buy new   
   >>> routers FAR more often than they move. I have lived in this house for 27   
   >>> years. I am on my 4th router now. So I moved 3 times?   
   >>>   
   >>> And what about Google?  They have a similar list. Are you outraged over   
   that?   
   >>>   
   >>> You might as well track "me" by tracking where my car goes.  Except that   
   the   
   >>> car can also be driven by my wife and my kids.   
   >>>   
   >>> Give it a rest. This will never be a class action lawsuit. That you think   
   it   
   >>> will just shows how incredibly stupid you are.   
   >>   
   >> Add to that you can change MAC addresses on many routers.   
   >   
   > OF COURSE. But that does not fit his obvious - not to mention pathetic -   
   > agenda.   
      
   True.   
      
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