[davidcorbin]

Real question is why does android allow access to a phones MAC address?

[wutbrodo]

If you read TFA:

> TikTok appears to have exploited a known bug on Android to gather users’ MAC addresses,

[Jonnax]

There are WiFi scanning apps like this: [0], they allow you to scan nearby WiFi networks and their channels, plus do a subnet scan that gives you the Mac addresses of your phone but also other devices on your network.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ubnt.usurv...