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For a privacy conscious company such as Apple, turning off Bluetooth when not needed should be encouraged. Keeping it on 24/7 makes you trackable, you're broadcasting a unique identifier.

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Since when Apple is a privacy conscious company.

How can you argue they’re not? Even if you think everything they say is bullshit and that they spy on you actively, being conscious of something means you’re aware of it, that you know it exists and what it is. Apple is certainly conscious of privacy, they don’t shut up about it.

https://www.apple.com/privacy/

If you believe them or not, that’s a whole different matter.

> a privacy conscious company such as Apple

[citation needed]

They have a whole page dedicated to it [0]. To be fair, I mean it with a bit of sarcasm. How can you collect so much data and call it privacy. I definitely believe they do a better job than most companies though, even though I dislike how aggressively they are pushing sync features.

[0] https://www.apple.com/privacy/

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