Wi-Fi MAC tracking
Nearby radios
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What it does
A Wi-Fi sensor hears the hardware address a phone or laptop broadcasts while it looks for networks. The address can be used to count or follow a device as it passes the sensor. The person does not join a police network. The phone only has its radio on.
Privacy watchdog concerns
No watchdog page is attached.
Constitutional issues
Analogical constitutional argument
Fourth Amendment, Nevada Constitution art. 1, § 18
Warrant practice not established for a Nevada agency
Wi-Fi MAC tracking: No Nevada Wi-Fi tracking sensor is documented. Carpenter does not decide it. Jones does not become a holding about a radio address by analogy alone.
- Carpenter v. United States, 585 U.S. 296 (2018). Does not decide this technology. United States Supreme Court. Carpenter does not decide a Wi-Fi hardware address collected by a sensor.
- United States v. Jones, 565 U.S. 400 (2012). Analogical constitutional argument. United States Supreme Court. Jones decided a GPS device the government attached. A Wi-Fi sensor is a different fact, and the analogy is unresolved.
Statutes attached to read, not findings.
- NRS Chapter 239. Nevada public-records law is the route to ask for contracts, policies, and logs. Citing it is not a finding that a surveillance practice is unlawful.
- Nevada Constitution art. 1, § 18. State search-and-seizure provision. This page does not quote the section. No section anchor was verified. It is listed only where a search question is actually implicated.
- 42 U.S.C. § 1983. A civil remedy for a deprivation of federal rights under color of state law. It is not a warrant statute, and it does not itself make a surveillance practice unlawful.
Nevada use
Not documented on this page.
Capability only.
See also: Bluetooth beacons; Retail foot-traffic analytics repurposed for police
Next record
Wi-Fi MAC tracking: Do not infer Wi-Fi sensors from a camera contract.
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