What's more, some malls are now monitoring Bluetooth signals to map the flow of shoppers for marketing purposes.īut why should you care about this level of surveillance if you're a law-abiding citizen? 'I think people should consider the bigger picture of how every citizen's location could be tracked and saved in a database somewhere,' Hilts says. It's being used as the basis for insurance discounts and entered as evidence in legal disputes. Hilts notes that information from fitness trackers is being employed for an increasing range of purposes.
