Turn your wireless off.

Update: Here are some observations. older Apple devices broadcast their full PNL; newer devices broadcast less frequently, sometimes with random addresses, but with predictable packet sequences.

Phones with wireless turned on and asleep regularly broadcast at least every 10 minutes. After this I'll check how often my s5 scans with wireless turned off, and google location on..

Changing the networks you use isn't very feasible..

Sounds simple, eh? Well, any time you forget to turn it off you are being registered somewhere. And as far as I can see, when you are not connected to any wireless networks and are sending out broadcasts, you send what could be your entire preferred network list.

It seems that the only proper response will be from the IEEE association decides to respond. If that's even who is responsible. I am looking into this; most security researchers seem heavily fascinated with the possibilities presented by the flaw but have resigned from discussing a true fix.

This idea started with my fascination with wireless security. Then I noticed that others had done incredible amounts of work in this area; mainly the snoopy and creepydol architectures.

Understanding of these tracking technologies is slowly hitting the masses. While there are other ways to track and monitor individuals, this is one method which you can opt-out of.

Receive a probe, send a probe? Perhaps, but this probe amplification attack will make it appear that everyone in range is searching for everyone elses networks.

Not having ever used any of these commercial wireless tracking platforms, I don't know how it would actually effect their data, however, on my system which simply listens for probes with macs, ssids, and signal strengths, my data is completely fuzzed.

Other patterns may be present in this data; passive [pdf] monitoring may be in use.

Other approaches to controlling this avenue of tracking have been addressed by the IOS developers; but it doesn't seem to work as advertised. I won't be updating past IOS 8.0.2 for the need to jailbreak, though.

Also a patch for wpa_supplicant may be possible.