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WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed (news.ucsc.edu)
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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Innocuous radio signals are one thing but if my apartment is inundated with radio waves that can literally be used to track my movements and monitor my heartbeat, being forced to allow this is a perverse and sickening invasion of privacy.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yes, 20 people at a government agency are watching you watch Netflix and taking a shit.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    the problem is that you don't need 20 people for this kind of thing. you can just kinda passively slurp the data up from every router and throw it into a machine learning model to be used by cops or sold to advertisers. you don't need a human in the loop anywhere and it's essentially impossible to opt out of

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