If a device can access the internet, it has a MAC address. Short for Media Access Control address, this uniquely identifies a device on a network, almost like a house or apartment number. While you ...

Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport says that anonymously tracking smartphones through airport security has enabled it to cut the average waiting time by a third. The system, developed ...

Billions of computers are linked through the Internet. And with so many devices communicating and exchanging information, each one needs to have a unique identifier so that the right information ...

When communicating over Wi-Fi, your iPhone needs to verify itself on the network before it can receive data—intended for it—on that network. It does this using a MAC address or Wi-Fi address. While ...

Everyone has been talking about privacy for years, but now that the backlash is big enough for some lawsuits to be filed, a privacy-centric approach to device identity claims to replace media access ...

At this year’s Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced that it's changing how a device’s MAC address is communicated to WiFi access points in iOS 8. This modification puts a damper in ...