Posted on 08/03/2025 6:49:46 AM PDT by Openurmind
Once upon a time, in their startling report titled "Bigger Monsters, Weaker Chains," ACLU analysts Jay Stanley and Barry Steinhardt argued that the US was quickly becoming a full-blown "surveillance society," where advanced technology and crumbling regulation come together to create the kind of world that was previously the domain of dystopian science fiction.
"The fact is, there are no longer any technical barriers to the Big Brother regime portrayed by George Orwell," they wrote.
That was in 2003. In the two decades since, the tech sector has unleashed a tidal wave of innovations like targeted algorithms, always-on location sharing, police face scanners, biometric passports, and surveillance drones — and that's just the short list.
Adding to the technological horror show is a troubling new system known as "WhoFi," a high-tech apparatus that can track humans through Wi-Fi.
A team of researchers at the Sapienza University of Rome recently released a paper outlining a new system capable of detecting "biometric signatures" through distortions in Wi-Fi signals. Notably, the system can surveil humans regardless of lighting conditions, and can sense them through walls.
The researchers say that WhoFi can capture "rich biometric information," identifying individual people with a 95.5 percent accuracy rate.
"Unlike optical systems that perceive only the outer surface of a person," the team writes, "Wi-Fi signals interact with internal structures, such as bones, organs, and body composition, resulting in person-specific signal distortions that act as a unique signature."
Though the researchers say that Wi-Fi is a "non-visual" medium, and therefore "privacy-preserving," the threat to personal privacy is immense. For starters, if deployed in real life, it wouldn't be the only gadget watching our every move, but part of a constellation of existing devices already hard at work tracking our every move.
As of 2022, there were likewise at least 80 "fusion centers" in the US, facilities where local, state, and federal police, along with for-profit companies, come together to share all kinds of data, analysis, and resources with one another.
Shades of Minority Report.
I’m sure someone is working on an App to block the spying ,LOL
And “Eraser” IMHO
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“… a constellation of existing devices already hard at work tracking our every move.”
That’s a memorable quote. It’s reinforces that what (surveillance, lack of privacy), the timing (existing, and well entrenched), and the extent (pervasive).
What the quote doesn’t reference is the why, but George Orwell already helped with that.
What was once the stuff of conspiracy theories becomes mainstream news. Now lets talk about 5G tracking and targeting brain waves... welcome to a society of zombies and Manchurian candidates.
We shouldn’t even have to defend ourselves from this tech in the first place... It is seriously the proverbial matrix.
No doubt Palantir Technologies is already using this technology, linked to an international database. They already monitor everything else!
I’ve never seen that one; I’ll have to check it out.
“Now lets talk about 5G tracking and targeting brain waves... welcome to a society of zombies and Manchurian candidates.”
It is already here. It is coined “V2K”. There are actually lawyers advertising about it already:
Voice to Skull Technology and Electronic Harassment : V2K Targeting
V2K technology enables direct auditory communication with individuals’ brains through electromagnetic waves, which is significant for both military operations and raises ethical implications regarding privacy and consent.
Voice to skull (V2K) technology, also known as microwave auditory effect or microwave hearing, refers to the alleged ability to enable the transmission of sounds or voices directly into a person’s mind without the use of any external audio device. This can be done using electromagnetic waves to transmit sounds directly into a person’s head by stimulating the auditory nerve.
Victims report experiencing unexplained voices or sounds that seem to come from inside their heads. This has led to concerns about potential misuse of such technology for harassment or mind control purposes. If you are in need of an attorney who understands voice-to-skull technology and electronic harassment, resources are available to you.
https://www.jlegal.org/blog/voice-to-skull-technology-and-electronic-harassment/
My lady friend reported her car stolen. Cops wanted to know exactly where. They confirmed the car was not in the town during that time. They got cameras at intersections that record every license number-scary.
The friend was going through a mental breakdown so her memory was scattered.
Absolutely, our whole body fingerprint. And acquired from inside our own home.
It’s pretty good
When the Internet was in its infancy, George H Bush, former director of the CIA was President.
He / his administration created the framework of rules that essentially killed any semblance of privacy.
They argued and saw the Internet as being in the public sphere (I am positive that’s not how they saw their own digital communicatios, people making decisions like this are almost always hypocritical, no different than a ballpark. Anything over IP as far as the government is concerned, free game.
Realize you need a search warrant for a car, home or even to open and read a letter. But the rules with anything digital are entirely different.
Also... Over time you began having smart phones, cars that are networked, smart home meters, smart watches, smart appliances, cameras on every street intersection, all your medical records became digital, so did a request for a prescription, your library, etc. But everything over IP is still “free game” as far as the Intel Community sees it.
The Fourth Beast world government
WILL crush everything in its path
Some think they’ll avoid it by
non-participation. That will not
be permitted via electronic tyranny.
‘1984’ will look like a cakewalk.
(argued that the US was quickly becoming a full-blown “surveillance society,”)
And London is BIG on that, across the pond
“I am perpetual, I keep the country clean!”
I think the only difference is they are open and blatant about it over there, it is being hidden from us here. But it is all the same tech from the same bigtech corporations so it is all going into the same global database.
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