Another option would be to go on the offensive. Someone can leave devices in the store whose sole purpose is just to spoof mac addresses. Ideally, this would flood their data with fake entries, making it useless to the trackers. (They didn't ask permission to do their track.) keira
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014, at 03:00 AM, dun...@openmailbox.org wrote: > So summarising the you guys mentioned, it looks like our options are: > > 1. randomise phone MAC addresses > 2. turn off WiFi > 3. don't use store loyalty cards > > Are there other things we can do? Are the other leakages we need to > stop? > 14 02:54, <dun...@openmailbox.org> wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> A few months back a ad platform sensenetworks was recently bought by a > >> large US corp. Among their offerings, is the not uncommon real-time > >> bidding auction for ads: > >> > >> http://crypto.mm.st/sense-ad-bid.jpg [1] > >> > >> However, what shocks me is the claim that they're able to track users > >> buying items in physical stores. How they do this, is completely > >> beyond me. > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://crypto.mm.st/sense-ad-bid.jpg > [2] https://www.sensenetworks.com/retail-retargeting/ -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
