Sadly, it’s too late. It’s quite clear we’re on track to a totalitarian surveillance state.

Ring cameras recording your movements around the neighborhood.

Flock (and other government) cameras recording all vehicle movements.

Cell towers and WiFi APs recording device ids and movements.

Recent legislation requiring driver monitoring systems in cars. Plus the fact that any EV can be remotely controlled and disabled.

And now we have AI systems that can actually aggregate and correlate all this data.

It’s over. We’re too far down this slippery slope, there’s no turning back now.

The only thing I think we can do is shield our private spaces from prying signals like we use walls to shield them from prying eyes.

We wouldn't have street lights if the Fourth Amendment could prevent the monitoring of people in public. If I can install a webcam pointed at an intersection and stream it publicly, anyone and everyone can, and eventually enough public webcams like that create a network that anyone can use to track what's going in public. The only thing we can really do is ensure knowledge of what people do in public is kept public.

Flock extracts value from public information and there's nothing Flock can do to prevent competition. Flock is only a problem for the moment because they have a relative monopoly on public information and can make claims or provide evidence nobody can contest, but eventually we're going to decide we shouldn't trust a private entity like Flock to accurately report reality any more than we should trust anyone else with a private agenda.

This would be extremely difficult to detect and enforce.

> already is being tested by some internet providers

I would say to never use a wireless router given to you by your ISP, and to install Openwrt on the one you do use, but the government is absolutely chomping at the bit to ban all wireless routers whose firmware can be changed and to force you to use their (soon to be if not already backdoored) ones.

I disagree. I think if you've come from the time before WiFi, with enough time before it to remember and have nostalgia for it, then you've already made your nut and are simply spending the time you have left in the relative carelessness of the upper middle class and that skews your perspective

"Exist" is a low benchmark to hit.

Very few people would be willing to trade in the opulence of today.

You don't have to have washing machine either but it is kind of pain to wash in your hand. Same like it is a pain to connect your phone to Ethernet

Well if every business and home and public place has WiFi or Cellular technology with these capabilities it doesn’t really matter if you don’t they will still be able to use it to track you. This is why something has to be done to stop it.

Radio transmission of data is over 100 years old we aren’t turning the dial back on that, but this one specific application of it to track people is and that’s the problem.

The musician MIA has a line of clothes along those lines:

https://ohmni.com

Wifi imaging has been a publicly known technique for years. I think the news is more how good it's gotten.

Using this: https://github.com/francescopace/espectre

Looks like it's open access:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3719027.3765062

Yes actually, but I don't think it's technically allowed/legal in the US in the eyes of the FCC, not sure about other countries. It utilizes 77GHz FMCW, I got one for free but they retail for about $100. The part number is R77ABH1

Edit: sorry, you said "using this technology" and I missed that - this doesn't uses the same tech

Heart rate, no, but monitoring breathing is possible using mmWave radar(eg 60 GHz Doppler radar nowadays, or the 5.8 GHz band earlier). Resmed S+ was probably the most well known, but it's been discontinued for a while now. If you search around, you can still find such devices.

No

The convenient accelerationist take that lets you do whatever you want, all the time.

How do we adapt?