Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed

paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure applications can only send and receive data, with the finer details being handled by the OS.

  But yes, there should be a specific permission to access biometric information.

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That makes sense. I assume these exotic ability’s require precise control of the radios. So, for now, until an API made, we should be safe.

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    • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “Google enters the chat”

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  • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Suddenly your new dishwasher sends your health protocols to your doc. The fancy toilet helped with a consistency analysis and your smart lamps add a sleeping protocol.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Maybe not eye tracking, but probably head tracking.

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Apps watch how we move/rotate devices to understand whether we’re walking, resting, lying down, etc., I assume? (The most popular apps I mean with large data teams)

    Wish that stuff could be turned off unless it was e.g. a game that made legitimate use of the accelerometer.

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    • just2look@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      GrapheneOS does allow you to turn it off. It has a permission switch for your phone sensors. I don’t know if there are other versions of android that allow the same.

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• Amir@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Android throttles the hell out of WiFi requests since (I think) Android 9. You need to manually allow WiFi request spamming in developer options to let apps do something like determining location from it.

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• webjukebox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think it can also detect our neural frequencies, aka ‘read our minds’. That’s why we see ads for things we thought about but never even searched for.

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  • ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Dog… What?

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    • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      …columbia.edu/…/mind-reading-technology-can-turn-…

      We already live in a world with existing, functional mind-reading devices. There is even a device designed to help people suffering from ALS comminicate, that has a privacy feature where the device activates or deactivates whenever the user thinks a password, in order to allow the user to maintain private thoughts.

      Phones are not fMRIs though.

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      • krunklom@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Also: wifi can read my mind.

        Fucking lmfao

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• theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  WiFi can also do pretty precise location. Bluetooth/BLE even more precise (inches or less)

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  • yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think they mean without a phone. A 2.4ghz radio can be used as a presence detection radar.

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    • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It sounds like they’re specifically talking about a phone, making reference to app permissions and TikTok.

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