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What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You: Building Bluehood, a Bluetooth scanner that reveals what information we leak just by having Bluetooth enabled on our devices. (blog.dmcc.io)
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[–] db2@lemmy.world 43 points 8 hours ago

The project was heavily assisted by AI

[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 7 hours ago

Tldr: Bluetooth isn’t entirely the problem. The problem is manufacturers who don’t add privacy features like rotating identifiers into their Bluetooth enabled devices. Many smartphones are doing this these days.

E.g. modern non-cheap devices (iphone, pixel, general higher level android, airpods, apple watches, other modern headphones etc.) have those, and are not really track able like this.