I found this creepy article from Nova Scotia about tracking cellphone traffic. Apparently, the company hired to do the analysis can tell someone’s age and income level from cellphone data.

  • pasdechance@jlai.lu
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    7 days ago

    That is creepy. I’ve been to Windsor dozens of times. I didn’t know there was a downtown.

    They do the same thing with buses in my city and it is “opt-out” which is unfair because you have to search everywhere to find out how to opt-out and then copy-paste your MAC address. Not very user-friendly…

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      6 days ago

      Downtown area is small. But lots of amazing food places, and A Casino if you like that sort of thing. Downtown used to be popular 20+ years ago but its been slowly atrophying with tons of closed businesses since