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WiFi signals can measure heart rate

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463 points bookofjoe | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 14:53 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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elric ◴[04 Sep 25 19:18 UTC] No.45131161[source]▶
It's galling that this press blurb only focuses on happy (supposed) health monitoring benefits, and fails to address the privacy concerns in the slightest.

This can be abused in so many ways, like watching how people's heart rates change then watching an add, or browsing a selection of goods in the shop, and making viscerally targeted advertising. Or burglars detecting whether people are at home.

Soon we won't just have to worry about unpatched wifi routers being parts of botnes, we'll have to worry about them tracking our locations and excitement levels and selling them off to whoever.

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yieldcrv ◴[04 Sep 25 19:47 UTC] No.45131477[source]▶
new and more efficient markets
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1. andrepd ◴[04 Sep 25 20:15 UTC] No.45131751[source]▶
I was just in another thread with someone claiming that without pervasive ads things would be worse than Soviet Russia (sic). I don't doubt ad+tech giants will get their hands on any source of data they can.