[pythonaut_16]

This is much better than tracking people via facial and video recognition captured with near-omnipresent camera feeds. This is tracking signals that an optional device optionally broadcasts (and has for years). You can easily avoid this tracking by not having your phone broadcast bluetooth or by not carrying a phone.

Not to mention any number of actors could have already been tracking this signal for years. It's the nature of how bluetooth devices broadcast their presence.

[zajio1am]

> You can easily avoid this tracking by not having your phone broadcast bluetooth or by not carrying a phone.

Until government makes it mandatory.

[freeflight]

> This is much better than tracking people via facial and video recognition captured with near-omnipresent camera feeds.

This would be a point if near-omnipresent camera feeds were reduced in favor of using this.

But the much more likely outcome is that this will only end up increasing overall surveillance capabilities, not reign them in.

[monadic2]

> This is much better than tracking people via facial and video recognition captured with near-omnipresent camera feeds.

Yea, but it's much worse than non-shitty suggestions. Obviously if you pick the shittiest option anything will look good.