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The 100,000 milestone passed |
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Tuesday, 26 February 2008 |
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I never expected to reach this so quickly.. but just 7 sensors already picked up 103,527 unique mobile bluetooth devices. The 100,00 milestone passed a few days ago. The data is still growing strong with an average of 300-400 new devices every day. Some numbers per location; | Location | Mac's found | | Apeldoorn Centrum | 54518 | | Den Haag | 34125 | | Apeldoorn Asselsestraat | 11383 | | Haarlem | 8333 | | Apeldoorn Driehuizen | 2433 | | Ugchelen | 1285 | | Apeldoorn wijk Orden | 1243 | |
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Saturday, 09 February 2008 |
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Busy times made it quiet here.. but there is some news. - The current unique number of devices found it 86.198 at this moment (and still growing insanely)
- I received a file from a guy in London also doing bluetoothtracking. We have quite a few matches between London and Holland. I will put up the data very soon.
- Someone in Haarlem might be joining soon.. so more data to come.
The names of bluetooth devices is a trendy thing. Check out this one. |
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Wednesday, 02 January 2008 |
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The search option is back online. It can be found in the menu bar on the left of the screen. You can search on names in the database.. it certainly returns some interesting results. |
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53,000 bluetooth devices milestone |
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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
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Some quick update on some numbers here.. So far already over 53,000 unique bluetooth devices have been discovered. The most succesful location so far seems to be Apeldoorn City Center with over 38,000 unique devices, and Den Haag catching on quickly with 10,200 bluetooth devices. Oh.. and by the way.. 3 more people traveled from Apeldoorn to Den Haag, making the total 19. |
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16 travelers between Apeldoorn and The Hague |
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Thursday, 13 December 2007 |
For the last 10 days I have been receiving data from a bluetoothscanner in The Hague. In 10 days time we had 16 matches of phones that were both seen in the Hague and Apeldoorn (distance 140 km). You can see an example here.
Also I added google maps.. it will now map out the locations a phone was detected. |
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First Apple Iphone detected |
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Wednesday, 05 December 2007 |
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On december 2nd at 16:36:30 hrs the first Apple Iphone was detected in Apeldoorn City Center. It will be interesting to see the growth of Iphone presence once the phone becomes available in the Netherlands. |
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Monday, 03 December 2007 |
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Starting today we receive bluetooth scan data from a location in Den Haag. It will be interesting to see in a few days if there are any matches. |
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Dutch working hours - off on friday afternoon |
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Friday, 30 November 2007 |
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Below you see the statistics of the Apeldoorn Driehuizen bluetooth scanner. The location of this scanner is near a couple of office buildings. You can clearly see the early morning and late afternoon traffic.. It even shows that they usually go for a walk after lunch. One afternoon peaks at 12.. friday afternoon.. and this is because many people take friday afternoon off.
 Dutch people like to enjoy long weekends and often take friday afternoon off. |
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What's the MAC-address of your Iphone? |
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Wednesday, 28 November 2007 |
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Are there any Apple Iphone users outthere? If so.. could you please email me the first 6 digits of your Iphone's bluetooth mac-address? I would like to see if there are any Iphones roaming the streets of Apeldoorn. It seems like most Iphones start with 00:1C:B3.. but there seem to be some exceptions.. |
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Bluetoothtracking & Privacy |
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Friday, 23 November 2007 |
Since I started this project a lot of talk has been about privacy. I knew sooner or later this subject would come up and I think it's good the discussion gets started. Its amazing how many people put their full name or last name in their phone as a bluetooth ID.
Privacy is an issue when you can trace a 'named' individual. Many of the names displayed on the website are anonymous and there is no way to check if they are even real. I could put the name ' George W. Bush' in my phone but this doesnt mean he is walking the streets of Apeldoorn. The MAC address I track only refers to a number in a chip on the bluetooth device. Even if I would know which MAC address belongs to which phone and which person (which I dont), it wouldn't make the person traceable by definition. He could simply have borrowed his phone or PDA to his wife and she is walking around with it.
I am aware many people don't even know about bluetoothtracking, and to protect 'the innocent' I have implemented a few changes on the website;
- Only the first 6 digits of the macaddress are shown.
- The following bluetooth names are blocked and not trackable: the combination of first & lastnames, only lastnames, email addresses, phone numbers, company names, website names and anything else that might be traceable back to an individual.
- The option to dig deeper into a bluetooth device history has been turned off. It will return, but only to devices with non-changeable vendor assigned names like 'TOM TOM GO'. All of this will be without the MAC address being visible.
- The search option has been disabled for now.
I want to make clear that I only track bluetooth MAC addresses and the names broadcasted by the phone. I do not have access to their phonebooks, sms history or phonenumber. I only perform a passive scan.
Anyone can do a passive scan. Just go and sit at a busy restaurant or trainstation and search for bluetooth devices. The results might dazzle you! |
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