Is this good? I can’t help but think it’s just another datapoint for google to scrape
Is this good? I can’t tell if it’ll just be used as one more invasive information gathering data points for Amazon and google
Wifi sognals can read my heart rate, and be used to track me around my house. But I still can’t get a signal in my room one floor up from the router.
This is the key point - these have to be clear signals in the same room.
Hence wifi 7.
Care to elaborate?
Faster speeds, better connection, requires higher AP density.
One day, WiFi might even be usable as a method for making a reliable network connection
Insurance companies…sorry you’re denied for being a health risk…we can see from your home internet that you’re an unhealthy person
Damn. “TikTok would like to access WiFi”
We need new permissions for this shit. WiFi can do presence detection and now heart rate? What next? Eye tracking?
Maybe not eye tracking, but probably head tracking.
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.
WiFi can also do pretty precise location. Bluetooth/BLE even more precise (inches or less)
I think they mean without a phone. A 2.4ghz radio can be used as a presence detection radar.
It sounds like they’re specifically talking about a phone, making reference to app permissions and TikTok.
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.
Dog… What?
https://www.neurology.columbia.edu/news/mind-reading-technology-can-turn-brain-scans-language
We already live in a world with existing, functional mind-reading devices. There is even a device designed to help people that are suffering from ALS communicate by reading their thoughts, and has a privacy feature where the user can activate and deactivate the device by thinking a password in their mind, in order to allow them to still have private thoughts.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-brain-device-is-first-to-read-out-inner-speech/
Phones are not fMRIs though.
Wow, all that with an esp32. No fancy hardware needed.
And I guarantee some organization will figure out how to use this for some police state bullshit.
That’s already the original use case. Cardiac signature biometrics, can install in a doorway and do identity verification and track/monitor every individual that passes through the threshold
Cool tech but I question it’s usefulness. They focus on clinical in their language but anybody who’s on telemetry orders needs waveforms not beats per minute. I care if they’re suddenly in afib, not that they’re a little tachy after getting up to go to the bathroom.
Well some darker entities probably would appreciate access to this tech. In order to confirm mission complete if you smell what I am cooking.
They mentioned apnea.
2026: Major grocers found using customer heart rate to personalise prices - higher the pulse, higher the price
So the tricorder in Star Trek was just a fancy, battery powered wifi hotspot??
3 letter agencies have already been using this for cardiac signature identity verification and tracking for a long while
Isn’t this no different then a sonogram
