A German research team has shown that a passive listener sitting within range of an ordinary Wi-Fi network can recognize individual people walking through that network’s signal field, without a camera, without the target carrying a phone, and without ever joining the network. The finding is real, it is peer-reviewed, and it was presented at...
Intro City councils from Syracuse to Denver have spent the past year voting down contracts with Flock Safety, the Atlanta company whose automated license plate readers became the most visible symbol of American street-level surveillance. Activists have called the votes a privacy victory. In a growing number of those cities, the poles did not stay...