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Originally Posted by greg80
I was told by a programmer user can be tracked using their MAC address. Is this true, could you track someone like that instead of IP or cookies?
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Perhaps they mean tracking smartphones by their wifi MAC address. There's a company in London which is working on targeting advertising by doing this. They even suggest using multiple mini access (snoop) points to determine how long someone sits at a bar, or which restroom they go into. By linking these access points together they can gradually build up a profile of the person.
With regards to Google, I don't know of any way that a stock web browser would reveal a MAC address to a remote site. A malicious plugin or malware could do this, of course.