Apple Makes It Harder For In-Store Marketers To Track You In iOS 8
June 09, 2014 at 11:50 AM EDT
Apple has enabled MAC address randomization in iOS 8 (from Frederic Jacobs via HackerNews), which means it’s harder for marketers to keep track of your comings and goings in or around public Wi-Fi networks. In the updated software, while your iPhone is scanning for Wi-Fi networks, it assigns a “random, locally administered” MAC address, which is typically a constant,… Read More