The reason the FCC is only allowing the sale of state approved routers in the US?

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[–] 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Opensource tech to do the same thing has been in the hands of the people for a long time. This is just a different way of doing it without motion sensors.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

    these are not just motion sensors. these are much more accurate than that.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (3 children)

    The motion sensing is more accurate in terms of fundamentally detecting movement, but if you're going from that to assuming it can identify who you are, no it doesn't do that. It can recognize a person as the same person it saw in the room yesterday, based on their gait and their effect on the local wifi signal, but it has no way of knowing if the pattern belongs to Old Man Wilson or Old Lady Jenkins, because there's no database tying those patterns to people's identities. And besides, the patterns are specific to that one signal environmnent anyway. It's not like a fingerprint or a facial image you could record at home and then match to someone walking around in a store, which has a different signal environment.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    it cannot identify persons, but it can figure out their position and roughly what are they doing.

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