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A comment on European Citizens' Initiative for a ban on biometric mass surveillance.

Re:European Citizens' Initiative for a ban on biometric mass... by macawfish on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @06:16AM (#26165159)
Just a reminder that the 5G project is a biometric mass surveillance project, if you were missing the context on what that might look like in practice. Source: dozens of published articles about using mm wave antenna arrays to do stuff like gait recogition and "device free localization".
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Re:European Citizens' Initiative for a ban on biometric mass... by mlN90 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @06:43AM (#26165325)
No, 5G's purpose is drying cats outside of microwaves.

MIT repurposed a router to look through walls for people. Does that mean that 2.4 GHz routers are spycraft tools?

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Re:European Citizens' Initiative for a ban on biometric mass... by macawfish on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:38AM (#26167528)
They became spycraft tools right when that research was published. Seeing as how spying is done opportunistically.

But yeah go ahead and check out some of these articles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22480444

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Re:European Citizens' Initiative for a ban on biometric mass... by rhn_mk1 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @06:36AM (#26165272)
Your comment would have some credibility if you 1: provided one of those dozens sources, and 2: proved that it is a goal of 5G.
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Re:European Citizens' Initiative for a ban on biometric mass... by macawfish on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:37AM (#26167508)
I'm tired right now but here's a link to a previous comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22480444
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