Re:WiFi Routers Used to Produce 3D Images of Humans
by mschuster91 on Monday January 23, 2023 @04:25AM
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> Meaning, to deploy this tech, you need access to the space first to train this model.
Government secret services have gone and re-built the houses of high-profile raid targets before. And it's only a matter of time until simulation technology becomes powerful enough to do a "good enough" digital recreation from blueprints.
> multiple people moving was not evaluated by this tech/probably harder to achieve
At least one scenario in the article mentions "a room with several people". People moving around is just a question of speeding up data collection and analysis.
> With that in mind, I think privacy-invasion capability of this technology is exaggerated by some comments here.
The key thing is, what is public research grade now, is likely already a developed asset in government toolkits. And now that the general public has access to such technology, it will - more likely than not, given it can be done on 50$ low-cost devices - be commoditized, particularly where there is a financial interest in tracking people. I think a good candidate will be supermarkets and similar stores - at least in Europe, stuff like running analytics on surveillance cameras is pretty frowned upon under GDPR, but something like wifi-based tracking should be relatively unproblematic.
Re:WiFi Routers Used to Produce 3D Images of Humans
by autoexec on Monday January 23, 2023 @06:31PM
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Stores already commonly track people's movements and repeat visits by their cell phones. Bluetooth beacons are used to log any device that wanders near enough. No need for wifi tracking.
Government secret services have gone and re-built the houses of high-profile raid targets before. And it's only a matter of time until simulation technology becomes powerful enough to do a "good enough" digital recreation from blueprints.
> multiple people moving was not evaluated by this tech/probably harder to achieve
At least one scenario in the article mentions "a room with several people". People moving around is just a question of speeding up data collection and analysis.
> With that in mind, I think privacy-invasion capability of this technology is exaggerated by some comments here.
The key thing is, what is public research grade now, is likely already a developed asset in government toolkits. And now that the general public has access to such technology, it will - more likely than not, given it can be done on 50$ low-cost devices - be commoditized, particularly where there is a financial interest in tracking people. I think a good candidate will be supermarkets and similar stores - at least in Europe, stuff like running analytics on surveillance cameras is pretty frowned upon under GDPR, but something like wifi-based tracking should be relatively unproblematic.