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iOS 8 generates random MAC addresses to prevent retailers from spying on you

Posted on June 9, 2014 by

iOS 8 includes another hidden feature that Apple didn’t mention during the WWDC Keynote.
In iOS 8, the Wi-Fi scanning behavior has been changed to use random MAC addresses to prevent marketing and analytics companies from tracking users’ movement in retail stores by following Wi-Fi signals from their smartphones.
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