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Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy (www.sciencedaily.com)
submitted 18 hours ago by Zephorah@discuss.online to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The reason the FCC is only allowing the sale of state approved routers in the US?

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[โ€“] obviouspornalt@fedinsfw.app 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

that's a trivial problem to solve. combine this with a camera for facial recognition in a public space. then you've got wifi signature combined with the photo/video for facial recognition. then presumably you can use the WiFi signature anywhere else, even without the camera and be able to identify people.

[โ€“] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 1 points 31 seconds ago

I was wondering about that. The article didn't say anything about being able to identify the same person walking past a different router. And I can't imagine the study didn't try. So I assume it doesn't work.