"On several occasions, student and IT enthusiast Bjørn Martin Hegnes has been carrying equipment for listening in on Bluetooth and WiFi messages for an academic project. His goal was to investigate how many of us can be tracked in secret without even noticing." Older Bluetooth devices maintain static MAC addresses which allow you to be tracked over time.
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