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The motion sensing is more accurate in terms of fundamentally detecting movement, but if you're going from that to assuming it can identify who you are, no it doesn't do that. It's good at recognizing a person as the same person it has seen before, based on their gait and their effect on the local wifi signal, but it has no way of knowing that a pattern belongs to Old Man Wilson or Old Lady Jenkins, because a) there's no database that ties those patterns to people's identities, and b) the patterns are specific to that one signal environmnent anyway. It's not like a fingerprint or a facial image you could record at home and then match walking around in a store.
it cannot identify persons, but it can figure out their position and roughly what are they doing.
Exactly. It can tell that Person A just lit a cigarette and Person B is taking a shit. The possibilities are terrifying!
its bad enough, and I don't know what to say if you think this is a nothingburger