Apple's spamtastic iBeacon retail alerts launch with Frisco FAIL

AP reports that about 20 iBeacon transmitters were in operation, some being discrete beacons and others being iPads and iPhones doing their retail duty. Some were set to be more long-range than others, they write, while other were set up to be of more limited range so that, for example, if you walked by an iPhone display iBeacon would send you a notification "asking if you want to upgrade, check your upgrade availability and see if you can get money for trading in your old phone." Apple has repeatedly said that it's scrupulous about its users' privacy, but scrupulosity has proven to be a somewhat fungible concept among many a data gatherer recently.That said, the AP reports that Apple says it doesn't collect information about shoppers in its stores – iBeacon is a push-notification system that's triggered when the Apple Store app senses a beacon, and the beacon doesn't need to know who you are or your iDevice's UID.

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