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      Welcome to the wonderful world of Bluetooth Mac address tracking, often used in stores to track the location of customers throughout the store. So yes absolutely Bluetooth tracking is a real thing, turning off your Bluetooth radio prevents your Bluetooth radio from being tracked.

      https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~nibhaska/papers/sp22_paper.pdf

      Bluetooth beacons, which I believe most people are thinking of when they talk about air tags, or Bluetooth tiles, are a different thing entirely.

      Bluetooth threats:

      • a phones radio being tracked
      • a Bluetooth beacon planted on someone
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          Does Graphene OS allow MAC address randomization for bluetooth

          Actually, I believe AOSP allows for a MAC address randomization when not connected to a device, but as the UCSD paper above indicates, it’s still quite fingerprintable