Identifying a person through walls from video footage, using only WiFi

Re:Identifying a person through walls from video footage, us... by dahart on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @10:39PM (#21143042)

I don’t see any reason the existence of spy tech would damage the 4th amendment. We already have spy tech (way better spy tech than this, btw), and the amendment still works to prevent (at least some) unreasonable search & seizure.

This is a neat application of WiFi signals, but the accuracy is nowhere near good enough for this to reliably ID random people.

I’m way more worried about online corporate surveillance that actually can ID me reliably with 100% accuracy and get a lot more info about me besides where I am, than I am of government surveillance of my walking gait through walls.

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Re:Identifying a person through walls from video footage, us... by mlyle on Thursday October 03, 2019 @12:49AM (#21143824)

Not to mention the posited scenario has nothing to do with the 4th amendment. If you reasonably believe a suspect is hiding in a house such that surveillance is a decent approach, you could go kick down the door. Choosing to verify first with wifi is a gentler approach.

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