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Netgear 'fixes' router by adding phone-home features that record your IP and MAC address

Ken Hagan Gold badge

Re: Similar technical data

"flogging all the MAC addresses [...] to all the geo-IP companies they can find."

Not much use unless you know the location of the router. Netgear don't. The ISP (probably) does. Likewise, the location of connected devices is only useful if you know that they stay connected at that location, and mostly these days they don't.

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