The Sapienza computer scientists say Wi-Fi signals offer superior surveillance potential compared to cameras because they're not affected by light conditions, can penetrate walls and other obstacles, and they're more privacy-preserving than visual images.

[…] The Rome-based researchers who proposed WhoFi claim their technique makes accurate matches on the public NTU-Fi dataset up to 95.5 percent of the time when the deep neural network uses the transformer encoding architecture.

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[–] 161 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Ironically, a tin foil hat would probably work to prevent that kind of surveillance

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    wouldn’t that make it worse? basically any signal can bounce off you, making yourself even easier to track.

    edit: wording

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    The tracking happens even with a big reflector/scatterer on your head, but as long as you dont wear it regularly, the system would have difficulty identifying you from wave propagation alone

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    So wear many different hats. Got it.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Many different items of tinfoil clothing. Tinfoil shirt today, tinfoil codpiece for the weekend

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