Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance
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Re: Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance
#2Mac address randomization is a must if your wifi is on in public (you don't even need to connect anywhere to be fingerprinted and tracked). Also use cookie self-destruct plugins for your browser.
Re: Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance
#3Mac address randomization is a must if your wifi is on in public (you don't even need to connect anywhere to be fingerprinted and tracked). Also use cookie self-destruct plugins for your browser.
Possible on Android and without root?
Re: Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance
#4Mac address randomization is a must if your wifi is on in public (you don't even need to connect anywhere to be fingerprinted and tracked). Also use cookie self-destruct plugins for your browser.
MAC address randomisation has been proven to be essentially useless:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02874v1
Re: Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance
#5These are based on the LinkNYC kiosks in New York which date back to 2015 or so. The hardware looks exactly the same.
Re: Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance
#6Mac address randomization is a must if your wifi is on in public (you don't even need to connect anywhere to be fingerprinted and tracked). Also use cookie self-destruct plugins for your browser.
MAC address randomisation has been proven to be essentially useless: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02874v1
Having read just the abstract is seems that current implementations of Mac address randomisation is essentially useless rather the Mac address randomisation itself.
Hopefully in the future the implementation will improve. Until then WiFi is off.
Re: Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance
#7Until Brexit the UK will have to deal with GDPR. Things are gonna get interesting.
grabs popcorn
Re: Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance
#8Until Brexit the UK will have to deal with GDPR. Things are gonna get interesting. grabs popcorn
The UK intends to continue with GDPR post-Brexit
Re: Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance
#9Mac address randomization is a must if your wifi is on in public (you don't even need to connect anywhere to be fingerprinted and tracked). Also use cookie self-destruct plugins for your browser.
Possible on Android and without root?
As of iOS 8 and Android 5.0 the operating systems should do it automatically.
Re: Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance
#10Sorry, but can somebody give a full explanation why is it so bad?
And if you want want you can just not to use this kiosks, right?