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kmlx on June 14, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Retail stores use Bluetooth beacons to track custo...

fyi BLE tracking is both completely legal and has wide spread usage all across the EU. there’s hundreds of EU-based companies that provide these kinds of services.

mhh__ on June 14, 2019 [–]

Getting the data might not be illegal, but storing it without a direct reason or permission would be illegal

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