Re: [liberationtech] Recently sold sensenetworks has creepy buying habits tracking feature

2014-07-04 Thread duncan
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? On 2014-07-03 16:54, JCX wrote: There are many companies that

Re: [liberationtech] Recently sold sensenetworks has creepy buying habits tracking feature

2014-07-04 Thread Keira Cran
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

[liberationtech] Recently sold sensenetworks has creepy buying habits tracking feature

2014-07-03 Thread duncan
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 However, what shocks me is the claim that they're able to track users buying

Re: [liberationtech] Recently sold sensenetworks has creepy buying habits tracking feature

2014-07-03 Thread Nick
Quoth dun...@openmailbox.org: 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. (https://www.sensenetworks.com/retail-retargeting/) I'd guess this is done primarily using those loyalty cards. I