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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Help us map your home and your habits. You can reject this free offer for $9.99 dollars per month. Terms and conditions apply.

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Any open source implementations of this?

[–] Squiddork@lemmy.world 1 points 42 minutes ago

Yeah this has been around for some time now, here's a paper on the implementation of it.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00250

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

I'm guessing it assumes you're carrying your phone and infers motion from changes in the signal?

Or just uses the phone connecting and disconnecting to signal departure and arrival, in which case Home Assistant has done that for awhile now.

[–] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Or don't! (at extra cost)

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 88 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Awesome tech, if (and only if) you control it end to end, with no corporation involved in that process.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's why you buy your own router.

I'm using chromecast for streaming to my television. But I accidentally cut my internetcord and guess what doesn't work without internet eventhough it doesn't strictly need internet? Exactly, I'm getting rid of the chromecast soon.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Your telling me a streaming device doesn't work without internet. I'm shocked shocked I fell you.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It should be able to work on lan as well, in my opinion

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Are you trying to cast or screen share? Screen share should work over LAN I think.

[–] Player2@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When streaming content to a chromecast it usually makes a direct connection to the content source, not going through the device you're casting from. In limited cases like when sharing your screen to the chromecast it does only go from your device to the chromecast without internet, but that's rarely used because it's power and data intensive to your device. I guess you're right on the internet not being 'strictly' needed but it's used for a reason.

Should still buy your own router though, and move away from google services πŸ‘

[–] tpyo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah "google bad" but this isn't one of those instances. They've been very upfront about the functionality of the Chromecast for a very long time

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

"We're evil. Deal with it." -Google

[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 57 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All this is implying is that they are capturing this data anyways and offering you a peek at it for money with the guise that its for your safety.

There is likely no way for you to shut it off tracking you everywhere in your own home unless you pay them to access the settings for this feature.

They likely can track you behaviors with this and know when you take a shit, when you jerk-off/fuck your spouse, when you watch media, etc using machine-learning on the wifi specrum of your locations, signal shape, and duration.

Fuck this crazy invasive shit to piss.

[–] wheres_frank@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ask for just a plain modem and buy your own WiFi router. If that isn't an option, disable the routing functions and turn off the WiFi and buy your own router.

[–] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

I haven't had a provider supplied modem or router in well over a decade. Not everyone has the know how to do this but it's not hard to learn and they should learn.

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Does owning my own hardware prevent the service provider from getting this data?

Yeah, they used something like fluctuations in the WiFi signal, so you can turn it off. I suppose they could broadcast secretly without an SSID, but there are apps that will show it, so I doubt they would.

They can also see more than just movement: https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a42575068/scientists-use-wifi-to-see-through-walls/

[–] isaaclw@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

They would have to have access to the wifi piece specifically, so asside from them hacking the router, which is unlikely..

It makes it a lot less likely.

Pretty sure this was mentioned in Cryptonomicon (1999).

[–] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

With only one payment you can allow us to invade your privacy... Even more than we already do.

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pretty sure it’s, β€œwith one more monthly payment, we will give you some insight into a small price of information we already know β€œ

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

yeah im like. oh they are collecting it but if you pay they will give you a copy.

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reminds me of The Dark Knight when Batman activates something similar using cell signals.

We really ought to stop fucking creating the Torment Nexus, jfc.

[–] tpyo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

https://youtu.be/IRELLH86Edo

I believe this is what you're referring to

[–] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So I guess those directional MIMO arrays can now give information back to the host controller. That is kinda creepy but also it could be super useful in the right circumstances.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Device-free passive localization has been around for over 15 years.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0908.0893

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So when's it gonna be in Home Assistant?

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The idea of DfP has been around for over 15 years but its only recently become possible outside of a laboratory environment. It isn't in HA yet because no one has bothered to write a module for it and there's almost no WiFi gear that supports it; either natively or through exposing the data necessary to make it work.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Hmm, maybe they need to build it into OpenWRT first, then.

Either way, the bottom line is that it's completely unacceptable to exist as a feature unless it's 100% Free Software and running 100% locally.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It relies on AI to map the environment. I highly doubt Verizon’s will be running locally, and I’m positive it’s not fitting in firmware ROM.

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 1 points 49 minutes ago* (last edited 48 minutes ago)

Alert: the Wi-Fi has detected high-waisted mom jeans.

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago

colonel im trying to infiltrate a home but the clap of my asscheeks keeps being detected by the wifi signal