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Location tracking

Collaborating bots can use radio signal characteristics of WLANs to determine a user's location with relative accuracy using triangulation techniques. This information, in combination with other extracted personal information can lead to considerable privacy leaks. Specifically, bots can use this information to infer user behavior. For example, information on entertainment habits, political orientation, medical information can be potentially derived.