Tech adds phone tracking to license plate readers, associating devices with cars

I grow weary of this overreach. We really need to randomize device identifiers at just about all levels. Then again, I've always said the identifiers existing in the first place is a desperate bid to try to artificially implement a fingerprint in a society that until recently was seemingly fully cognizant of the folly of trying to do such things, and recognized such attempts for what they are... Power grabs.

According to them, they're tracking Wifi + Bluetooth identifiers.

And yes, for me this means that I've graduated from just putting my phone in airplane mode when I enter a store (to avoid the trackers too many stores have started using) to keeping my phone in airplane mode at all times when I'm not at home.

But whether anyone else should do that depends on how sensitive they are to being tracked.

But I'm thinking that there may be a way to turn my car's body into a faraday cage to block signals from leaving the cabin. That would be a nice compromise.