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Transport for London, the operator of the London Underground, has announced today that it will start tracking commuters’ phones on its Wi-Fi network by default starting July 8th. The phones’ MAC addresses will be tracked by the Wi-Fi access points across 260 of London’s metro stations. TfL will be able to use this data to see the routes commuters take as they move from one place to another.
TfL currently uses data from its ticketing system to get a sense of how journeys are made across the tube network. The data is true for people entering and exiting the stations but it can’t show the flow of movement through a station. That’s where the Wi-Fi data comes in as it will provide an almost real-time understanding of the flow of people through stations.
It says that this “secure, privacy-protected data” will provide benefits such as better alerts about delays and congestion within stations. It also promises that individual customer data is never going to be shared and commuters will not be personally identified from the data collected.
That’s because it’s using MAC addresses to track the phones. That’s what phones automatically send to Wi-Fi access points anyway when they’re trying to connect. So the only way that commuters have to not get tracked is to keep the Wi-Fi disabled on their phone.
TfL does say that it will anonymize the data by tokenizing the MAC addresses. They will be replaced with an identified that can’t be traced back to a smartphone or the person who owns it. No browsing or historical data will be collected from the devices.
All Phones Using Wi-Fi Will Be Tracked On The London Underground , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
May 22
In pursuit of its goal to help people quickly with Search, Google today introduced a subtle yet important design change for results on mobile devices. It has continued to tweak the Search experience over the years as the amount and format of information on the internet has changed drastically over the past few years.
As part of its ongoing efforts to provde a modern experience for Search users, it has unveiled a new visual refresh of the mobile search results page today. The idea is to better guide users to the information that they’re searching for.
The new design change puts a website’s branding front and center. Search results would previously list the links below the page titles. The links would always be in green and there was no way for them to reflect a website’s branding save for the actual domain name.
Google has switched the titles and links around. The page titles in mobile search will now be listed below the link to a search result. It will better reflect the website’s branding as the name of that website and its icon will appear at the top of the results card.
This will help users easily scan the page of results and click through to results from website brands that they’re familiar with or are the ones that they were particularly looking for. This redesign is rolling out to mobile first and will go live for everyone over the next few days.
Google Makes A Design Change To Mobile Search Results , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
May 22
Your SUV needs more power, and BMW wants to give it too you. The latest chess move in the German automaker’s strategy of M-all-the-things, the 2020 BMW X5 M50i and X7 M50i answer the age-old question of “why doesn’t my luxury truck do 0-60 mph in 4.1 seconds like the new Toyota Supra?” To make sure you’re never embarrassed in … Continue reading
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