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by jsingleton 3875 days ago
I would have thought that the City of London Corporation would be opposed to Wi-Fi tracking. Given their negative reaction when they discovered that the street bins were tracking people [0]. The technology in question was Presence Orb [1].

It's a good idea to turn Wi-Fi off when you leave home/work. This also avoids the issue of captive portals with gated internet access capturing your phone and disabling your data connection. I'm looking at you TfL.

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/12/city-london-cor...

[1] http://www.presenceorb.com