Re:mmWave radar, you won't see it coming
by dathinab on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @01:12AM
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Thinking about it a bit more in Germany there is a law about spy devices.
Most spying on users through websites etc. doesn't fall under it do it being formulated in the pre-internet age.
But would WIFI-7 enabled routers fall under it? It's not complete unrealistic that it might happen.
The think is this law is rather strict in how illegal spy devices are to be handled => destructive disposal. (Required, by anyone owning such a device).
That could be quite a big fall out.
This law did hit some IoT devices, like some toys with integrated voice recording.
Re:mmWave radar, you won't see it coming
by hungryforcodes on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @05:05AM
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Well it's nice that the most well behaving countries (not that they are THAT well behaved) play nice -- but for countries in mmmm...Asia, Africa and the Middle East this will be a boon, sadly.
Does that mean many of this applications are outright illegal in the EU, due to not having a good way to handle the case where the user doesn't opt-in?