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New Xfinity router motion-detecting feature stokes privacy fears — feature powered by Wi-Fi signals
(www.tomshardware.com)
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Is this bullshit? I'm not completely sure but it sure sounds like bullshit. It sounds like they're in the end stage of enshittification where they start lying to even the people who they're betraying everyone else on behalf of, and claiming to be able to harvest and monetize data that has only the dimmest glimmer of accuracy to it.
Probably not entirely bullshit. There are research to collaborate this:
I'm still just skeptical. There's a massive difference between researchers coming up with a model that works between two cooperating routers in perfect conditions, versus one router of a lowest-bidder-poorly-maintained-15-years-old model communicating with a PlayStation from within a closet with intervening electrical wiring in the wall and everything else.