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

that's not a sufficient fix when you are living very close to other households

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

    A sufficient fix is not letting your wifi devices connect to your neighbor's network so their router can detect you walking between it and them.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    my devices don't, but unless I misunderstood it it does not matter whether you are connected to the neighbor's router

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Wifi tracking uses measurements of the interference caused when objects pass between connected devices and a router. For your neighbors to track your movements their router would have to be connected to a device in your house, or maybe in the other neighbor's house on the far side of your house, so when you walk around it interferes with that signal.

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