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

Well that sucks. No one is closeted now. Your phone will report your arousal to stalkerware data slavers. It would not surprise me if it already did but has never been documented.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    A drone can fly by with a gun and use wifi to tell which room you are in in your home, shoot you through the wall, and see if your heart is still beating. If so, repeat untill dead.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    10 feet in ideal conditions isn't very far

    “The signal is very sensitive to the environment, so we have to select the right filters to remove all the unnecessary noise,”

    should be trivially easy to shield or make an environment excessively noisy

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    • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Delete this shit before my insurance starts hacking my WiFi to profile me for preexisting cardiac arrhythmia and I have to sell one of my kidneys to get on the waitlist for a new tooth.

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    literally Star Trek scanning for life signs

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