It's a widely used strategy in hotspot markets and large retail chains
to track movement within facilities. Since the data is all anonymized,
there's not any serious privacy issues; but the potential for abuse is
there.
We do utilize a similar system in one of our wifi projects, to provide
the city with analytic data on their down town area; it provides them
with information that helps with chamber of commerce initiatives, public
safety planning, and festival analytic data. When used responsibly, this
anonymized data does not pose any privacy risk.
However, I do have say that the domain that original email was sent from
does seem dubious - it goes to a link farm landing page. It makes me
wonder "Who is really asking, and what is their real motivation?"
On 5/11/2017 2:11 PM, garrettshan...@vabb.com wrote:
Jokes aside:
That sounds too "gray area" for my liking personally. While it's all
"technically" legal but still pushes some ethical issues with
potential collection of MAC addresses from unwitting parties.
Not that Lowe's and Target have any trouble with similar techniques.
-----Original Message-----
From: "Jan-OOLLC" <j.vank...@oregononline.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 2:48pm
To: wireless@wispa.org
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Query to the group
Maybe he owns a donut store?
Jan V
On 05/11/2017 05:53 AM, Mike Hammett wrote:
"FBI Surveilance [sic] Van 7"?
;-)
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*From: *"Chris Stradtman" <cstradt...@greenpointcommunications.com>
*To: *"WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
*Sent: *Thursday, May 11, 2017 1:04:41 AM
*Subject: *[WISPA] Query to the group
Hi Everyone,
I'm looking to this group to feel out the feasibility of an idea.
I'm working with a project that is looking at doing a sort of
"analytics". One of the possible things this would involve would
be paying WISPs to collect data on a particular SSID (this SSID
would be controlled by the project I'm working with, so this isn't
going into
any gray privacy grounds). The group would want to get the
content of the beacons seen with this particular SSID(s). It
could either be done through
vendor equipment that would support it, or it could be done via a
passive probe colocated with the WISP's gear.
I thought I would float this idea out to the group to see how it
is received.
Thanks in advance,
Chris Stradtman
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