[koalaman]

"Facebook _could_ still fingerprint users using BlueTooth"

This article's title and narrative makes it sound like Facebook is using bluetooth fingerprinting to geolocate users against their wishes, and that Android's new permission will end that. However reading the text carefully it never actually claims Facebook is currently doing that. Are they or not? Is this article a hypothetical? That seems very disingenuous but also very typical of the kind of stories on privacy and advertising I see online.

[ggggtez]

My hunch is that the could language is couching since it can be hard to know for certain of Facebook is storing the data or just doing something else. But I think the implication is that they at least were looking at it when they weren't supposed to be

[PoignardAzur]

I think if Facebook did such a thing, a journalist could find out about it by now.

Facebook isn't open-source, so it's hard to analyze what the app does, but not impossible, and Facebook is under a lot of scrutiny.

[stickfigure]

If the author had a smoking gun, he/she would have put it in the lede. Parent is right, this is disingenuous.