USA Today

How to prevent car break-ins: Turn off your Bluetooth

Those apps that scan for devices using Bluetooth could sound great. The AirPods have fallen out of the ear and they're somewhere in the house. Whip open the app to find them. Or that lost phone, ...
Android

Skim Plus Lets Users Scan For Bluetooth Skimmers

Skim Plus (Bluetooth Skimmer Detection 2018) is a relatively new application that seeks to solve a problem that has risen with the proliferation of Bluetooth-connected devices. Specifically, with ...
KUTV

Bluetooth Break-ins: How to protect your electronics from making you a target for thieves

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — You can hide your electronics under your car’s seat, you can put them in the trunk, and a tech-savvy thief could still see them. With a Bluetooth scanner app, a thief who may ...
Android

Bluetooth Scanning Won't Require Location Permission In Android 12 – Thanks To COVID-19 Tracing

In Android 12, apps that need Bluetooth Scanning won’t need to ask for location permissions. And this is actually a feature that came from the COVID-19 tracing apps that launched last year – at the ...
Android Police

Android 12 apps won't ask for location permissions when all they want is Bluetooth scanning (which yes, was a thing)

Last year, Google rolled out a permissions exemption for contact-tracing apps that allowed them to scan for Bluetooth devices (you know, to keep track of people you may have been too close to during ...