wifinowglobal.com/…/breakthrough-in-wi-fi-sensing…
It’s been around for almost 4 years. Don’t use rental modems.
rhythmisaprancer@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I don't really understand how this works, so struggle to see any benefits (only drawbacks😐). It does make me thankful my provider is a small local company. Not the fastest, but probably no spying.
kautau@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Different context but the first time I heard about this it was touted as the future for VR
BussyCat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If you are interested I can try and find the article on it but a few years ago an article came out where they were able to use wifi signals with enough accuracy that they could see a password that you were typing on your keyboard!!
But basically they use the way the wifi signal bounce off things to make an image in much the same way that echo location works
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Like - I’m excited about sensors that uses higher frequency versions of this for health monitoring. I think that’s a perfectly valid use. But also, in my use, I’d be installing it as an IoT device on a network I control, feeding data to services I own.
This use - where it’s opt in for now, until they figure out how to monetize selling how much time you spend in front of the TV, in the kitchen, bedroom, or bathroom (paired with ‘anonymized’ data about what you’re looking at online in each space) is creepy as fuck.
BussyCat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is it really “opt in” or is the opt in only for them to give you the information that they collect? I haven’t read through any terms of service for it but my assumption is they are already selling that data
rhythmisaprancer@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
That is nuts. I've always liked hardwired better but hard to do that with a mobile phone.