Comcast, US internet giant and service provider rolled out a “WiFi motion” feature to millions of customer routers. Once customers enable it, they’ll be able to detect motion in their homes and get notifications.
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I feel like there’s probably a way I could do the same thing without Comcrap as a middleman. Anyone written libraries for doing this kind of thing with an openwrt box and a bunch of Linux machines?

Sounds cool, but I sure as fuck don’t want my ISP to be marshalling this data.

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And yes, reading through Xfinity’s privacy policy indicates they do monitor the WiFi motion data, and will share it with law enforcement or other third parties without notifying you.

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Then didn’t use their router or access points

I’ve always wondered if this sort of tech could scale to 5g towers for mass surveillance purposes

Kind of like Verizon was hyping, for firefighters and first responders, on their 5G commercials in 2018?

Wait what?

Found one similar to what I was thinking of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlaRliaEIQY

Not only is this a threat to your privacy but can impact your helath, as over-exposure to EMF has been linked to anxiety, fatigue, cancer, and many other bio-markers of poor health.

Oh brother this guy stinks!

The tech itself is interesting though. Triangulation of users indoors and outdoors is already possible

Times Square even uses it by offering free Wi-Fi. If a bunch of 50 year old white men connect to the wifi and are in the same spot, they’ll put up a fishing ad or some other shi.

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