June 9, 2014 07:50 pm GMT
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Apple Makes It Harder For In-Store Marketers To Track You In iOS 8
Apple has enabled MAC address randomization in iOS 8 (from Frederic Jacobs via HackerNews), which means it’s harder for marketers to keep track of your comings and goings in or around public Wi-Fi networks. In the updated software, while your iPhone is scanning for Wi-Fi networks, it assigns a “random, locally administered” MAC address, which is typically a constant,… Read MoreOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/jRHvqI81t7E/
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