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Snooping on Shoppers
MIT Technology Review
The most widely used technique is to intercept Wi-Fi signals emitted by shoppers' smartphones. Triangulating on that signal can estimate the phone's position to within a few meters. Stores also collect a unique identifier, called a MAC address, for ...





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