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Some will let you change it but it's almost always static since changing AP MAC Address will cause network disruptions for all connected clients.

Sure, some hacker somewhere will screw with these databases by rotating their AP MAC Address regularly but 99.9% are not going to touch it and 99.9% is good enough for location databases.

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