How Companies Track You Inside Their Stores

In this video I cover how large companies use Bluetooth beacons to track your activities in their stores. This data is used to understand your habits, but can also be sold to third parties.
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[@petergaudiomonte1080]

Soo I know this might sound crazy and relatively on topic but I am developing a network of a handful of Pi's running Kismet and other beacon monitoring software to create a monitoring perimeter around my property. Of course, granted that would be trespassers are carrying devices trasnmitting beacons. Building upon an idea I saw from Kody on Nullbyte. Could also be used for stalkers..etc. another great video from you! Thank you for the work you put into your content!

[@plaintextpackets]

I’ve thought about the same for monitoring the devices that come in and out of my home perimeter (and whether I know them or not) - good luck on the project!

[@LennyMiller739]

I thought the same thing based on 1 of those esp32 videos on nullbyte. Like square the property off with the boards and have them monitoring constantly, and then any mac that isn't whitelisted that has a stronger signal strength on the main unit inside then it does from the perimeter activates the sprinklers/turrets

[@roadmonitoroz]

@@LennyMiller739 You could hook that to a laser perimeter ... i.e. lasers shoot to a LDR which the controller (pi / arduino . If the beam is broken, it sends a signal with laser number broken . You could even combine this with your project to find if it is a known / unknown device with the person.

[@kv4atv]

I always turn Bluetooth OFF as soon as I get near the parking lot. Except for the cameras, your signal basically vanishes. Other than that would be to turn off your phone or leave it locked in the car turned off until you return. Electronic stalking should be Illegal. Stalking is stalking no matter how it's done.

[@TonoNamnum]

In the past that used to happen a lot. But today most modern phones will randomize that. Even your phone randomizes it's Mac address because of this. It's called Bluetooth address randomization.

[@plaintextpackets]

It has gotten better as many vendors have employed Bluetooth and wireless Mac randomization, but still not consistently employed. I’m also curious whether they are able to fingerprint devices using other identifiers within the beacon frames

[@majiddehbi9186]

ok where id wshark role here and how can we see clearly what going on

[@plaintextpackets]

There are Bluetooth radios you can get for your laptop to sniff Bluetooth packets.

[@khayla_matthews]

This was so interesting! Thanks for posting

[@plaintextpackets]

You’re welcome!

[@0xhamody]

The question is, why do you use Windows still?!

[@plaintextpackets]

I use windows and Linux interchangeably. For recording videos Windows is much more user friendly