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Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy (www.sciencedaily.com)
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The reason the FCC is only allowing the sale of state approved routers in the US?

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[–] 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

Pretty sure this is old news? It's basically sonar, which The Dark Knight predicted in the film.

Edit: a word

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    The statement from the article was the unlike previously, they used current consumer equipment, and could uniquely identify a specific person. I believe previous versions could just identify that there was "A" person. I don’t know that all that is true, but it is what the article says, and my vague memories line up.

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

    The first time I heard about this was in 2013 and, in 2019, I had a local government management class where wifi sensing in busy downtown areas and stadiums was discussed as a plus side to municipal wifi installations. In the latter case it was described as being available not too far in the future.

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