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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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[–] 11 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

From OPs linked article...

In tests involving 197 participants, the researchers said the system identified individuals with nearly 100% accuracy. The recognition remained effective regardless of viewing angle or how the participants walked.

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

    I can totally believe when it tracks a person it can tell when the same person walks by again later. But matching people with their actual identities would require a database of wifi scan data that simply doesn't exist yet.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    that's a load bearing "yet"

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    Well in theory every tech possibility is a "yet", but the way I read this it seems like a person or object's interference pattern is particular to the local signal environment - not like a fingerprint a different system could recognize at the airport.

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