One great reason to not have wifi in your home. I ditched my wifi years ago. I have a hard wired router without wifi, and no cell phone. A news story released last week says that scientists have found a way to turn
your wifi routers into camera’s seeing through your walls. The researchers say it will be a
benefit to your privacy, even though it is tool developed to remove your privacy.
This technology is not new. Similar technologies have been being used for years. In 2022 Israel started using
radar to see through walls. In 2018 MIT developed a technology to
see through walls using Rf waves that reflect off bodies for the purpose of monitoring and tracking. NIST is
using microwaves, they can see objects behind walls even if they are traveling at supersonic speeds. Back in 2018 at the University of California, Santa Barbara they had already found a way to
use ambient wifi signals from a basic smart phone to see through walls. As far back as
2012 law enforcement was already using this technology with radar devices. The US supreme court said this raised privacy issues since this type of technology is only legal through a warrant.
“The judges expressed alarm that agents had used the new technology without a search warrant, warning that "the government's warrantless use of such a powerful tool to search inside homes poses grave Fourth Amendment questions.".”
Once again a technology designed to fight wars and terrorism being used on us.
“The radars were first designed for use in Iraq and Afghanistan. They represent the latest example of battlefield technology finding its way home to civilian policing and bringing complex legal questions with it”.