What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You

Wasn't this an actual marketing application like 25 years ago? You'd have an app/tag that would broadcast an id in a particular range, and when you approached a store it would show advertisements or something like that. I think it also tracked your movements inside the store. I'd need to find the articles

Beyond the issues mentioned in this article like WhisperPair, it seems to me many folks have voiced a desire for a default timeout for bluetooth hosts to at least stay sleeping/turn off after some period without active connections.

I argue that the "operational security" of every day life could almost be as simple as keeping devices powered off, or in airplane mode. The reality is that most folks desire to keep their devices in a normal mode, as they would expect them at home, which further alienates the idea of robust "privacy by default" technology which is not developed with those qualities in mind.