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Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy (www.sciencedaily.com)
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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Why all the conditionals in the language? As far as I know "Wifi sensing" is already specified in 802.11bf and will be part of upcoming router generations. There's no "would" and "could" or "might"? It's gonna be there. And once it is, it will be used for the one thing it can do, ...sense people...