Beacons don’t track you. You track the beacons. That’s why they’re called beacons. The article is claiming beacons (or other bluetooth devices) could track you if your device was in pairing mode, which is not a real scenario.
They don’t just transmit it while in use though. I guess someone could track where you were each time you paired it but as you said cell towers already track you all the time
Bluetooth tracking is also bs. Nobody is walking around in pairing mode
You don’t need to be in pairing mode for Bluetooth to be able to track you. That’s not how beacons work.
https://www.inpixon.com/technology/standards/bluetooth-low-energy
Beacons don’t track you. You track the beacons. That’s why they’re called beacons. The article is claiming beacons (or other bluetooth devices) could track you if your device was in pairing mode, which is not a real scenario.
I don’t know too much about Bluetooth, but my understanding is that the MAC address doesn’t change, so if that’s ever transmitted, you can be tracked.
Someone will have to log it though, so I don’t think that’s nearly as interesting as cell towers tracking you nonstop.
They don’t just transmit it while in use though. I guess someone could track where you were each time you paired it but as you said cell towers already track you all the time