Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals

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• Corigan@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  YAY!

  No seriously stop inventing these systems. Like what positive outcome could there be but mass surveillance and substation of peoples.

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  • buffing_lecturer@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is that not what is funding the invention of these features though?

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    • Corigan@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I guess my point is what right minded person would volunteer their time and expertise to great tools like thls

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  • neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Serious answer?

    mmwave sensors are a gift for home-automation

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Twist: We can also be tracked by how we stop light…

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  • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    not if you just run all the reds

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  • rami@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    this one made me feel immensely better about this bs, thank you for posting

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• altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Its 2020, the year two thousand.
  We are robots.

  We can track humans via the unique way cancer cells disrupt Wi-Fi signals.

  Too bad we haven’t found a good way to detect or cure cancer.

  8G signals can scan the human body based primarily on the amount of HIV virus.

  Anyway, we’re still far away from a cure but we can tell if you have HIV thru our illness app.

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• Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Welp, time to start wearing clothes with movable wifi blocking patches in them, I guess…

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• tengkuizdihar@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  privacy preserving bio modality? Privacy? PRIVACY??? YOURE USING WIFI TO PINPOINT PEOPLE’S POSITION, WHICH PART OF THIS IS “PRIVACY”?

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  • notabot@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It tracks the location of a body (or anything else that causes the same sort if interference), but it doesn't identify the person, and as such they can reasonably make the claim that this technology is privacy preserving.

    Of course, as with anything that claims to anonymise data, or preserve privacy, that assertion starts to fall down when you use the resulting data in conjunction with other data sources, even if they too claim to be privacy preserving.

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    • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      We all know where this is going. Oh well, guess we need Faraday suits now.

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• Turd_Ferg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The tech has been around for a few years tomshardware.com/…/wi-fi-routers-used-to-detect-h…

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  • Meron35@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The WiFi tracking tech is not too new, but re-identification of subjects is. That is, instead of the shopping centre having to build up their own database to profile you, they can just match your unique biomarker to a external data broker’s database, supposedly.

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    • Turd_Ferg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      a biomarker data broker, the future is grim

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• zqwzzle@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Waiting for the invention what, when, and where-fi.

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• SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Sure and I heard you can listen to conversations that happened in rooms by measuring the slow liqufaction of the glass in the windows

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• ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Honestly, this sounds like a company with no real product trying to fleece law enforcement and government officials who are already drunk on the power of surveillance.

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• TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Expressing my 10th frustrated sighof the day

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Finally, a use for my lead paint spattered coverall

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