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Editor Comments: Trigger Alerts – As the election approaches, more articles are interpreting issues with left/right and red /blue divides, (for ex. the EV article.) I continue to flag certain listings, but I believe that some of the content may be of value, especially for others who may be writing or speaking about certain topics. Commentary about Omaba, Biden or Trump or medical debates be activating for some. Please keep an opened mind, especially since big tech plays all sides, just differently.
Along the same lines, our colleague Amber Yang at PEERS Public Education and Empowerment Resource Service has launched a new effort; Speculation Station “Healthy speculation and credible inquiry into society’s most controversial issues allows us to think creatively and openly about real possibilities. It invites diversity of thought, bringing people together across differences to think holistically and unconventionally about the complex challenges we face.” The inaugural episode focuses on UFO/UAP Technology which may be interest to tech readers. More info here: https://www.wanttoknow.info/speculationstation/ufo-technology
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Canadians for Safe Technology Submission: Minimizing Wireless Radiation* Pollution for a Healthy Environment (*Non-ionizing anthropogenic electromagnetic fields): https://c4st.org/docs/C4ST-Response-Right-to-a-Health_Environment-Minimizing-EMFs-2024-04-07.pdf ( 6 pages) Read the "Discussion Document on the Implementation Framework for a Right to a Healthy Environment under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA): and respond to any or all of the 15 questions asked. Submit your response to: HealthyEnv-EnvSain@ec.gc.ca https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/canadian-environmental-protection-act-registry/publications/right-healthy-environment-cepa.html
LEGAL CHD UPDATE: We also had some exciting litigation success out of California! In LA County, the court held that state environmental law is not preempted by the Federal Telecommunication Act. Great news! Read all about it in the latest Defender article, Huge Win’: Court Rules Big Telecom Must Comply With State Environmental Laws. and Press Release.
LEGAL CHD Scores Win in ‘Smart City’ Lawsuit as Court Orders Los Angeles to Turn Over Documents In our Smart City case, the judge recognized people’s rights to navigate the city without digital IDs! Watch attorney's Greg Glaser and Ray Flores give their update here - Children’s Health Defense (CHD) sued the City of Los Angeles to obtain records CHD said are essential to protecting the rights of residents, who don’t know what forms of surveillance they and their children are being subjected to and as a result, can’t exercise their legal right to opt out of being surveilled https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/events/smart-city-la-litigation-win/smart-city-la-litigation-win/
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Big Tech Is Trying to Prevent Debate About Its Social Harms The industry’s “digital trade” strategy seeks to preemptively constrain governments. By Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics and a professor at Columbia University.
“But while Big Tech demands that ordinary citizens give up their privacy, it is demanding for itself new secrecy rights not available in U.S. law. This includes a rule that would thwart governments from conducting pre-reviews of automated decision-making algorithms. These algorithms, when used by businesses, can determine who gets loans, jobs, apartments, and even who gets bail or jail. Prescreening is needed to safeguard Americans from harms caused by the use of algorithms that can disguise not only racial, ethnic, age, and gender discrimination but wage and hour abuses and facilitate consumer rip-offs like algorithmic pricing that charges some consumers more than others. There is no check on these algorithms at the moment, and screening is central to numerous bipartisan bills as well as the president’s executive order on AI. The secrecy provisions would also undermine “right to repair” policies that guarantee access to software updates and “digital keys” so people can update and repair their phones and other products and save money by using independent repair shops to fix equipment.”
Editor comment: In case you missed it, read about the Dutch algorithm mess here: https://www.politico.eu/article/dutch-scandal-serves-as-a-warning-for-europe-over-risks-of-using-algorithms/ (I believe that Europeans are more sensitized to abuses of power than Americans, in part due to the media, in part due to the living memory of war.)
“ONE KEY TACTIC the lobbyists are employing in this fight is to try to direct the debate away from Big Tech misconduct and into a foreign-policy frame, claiming that the industry’s demands are essential for U.S. global leadership if we are to win the economic war with China.” “MANY OF THE PROVISIONS in question are complex—and it is exactly that complexity the lobbyists try to use to their advantage, arguing that these are matters too complicated for ordinary people.”
The industry’s “digital trade” strategy seeks to preemptively constrain governments. Platforms like Google, Facebook, and Amazon are not only shaping our economy, but our society—with questions of privacy, monopoly power, online racial discrimination, misinformation, hate speech, incitement, and impacts on mental health at the fore of the policy debate. In a democratic society, designing policies to mitigate the harms—while preserving the benefits that these platforms bring, and keeping true to a range of principles and ideals to which most Americans subscribe—is hard. It often entails balancing one individual’s rights against another’s. But an issue that unites Americans across political and geographic divides is that these corporations, collectively known as “Big Tech,” have too much power over nearly every facet of our lives. Even those, like X, that have lost the confidence of advertisers have the power to push whatever agenda they want. Big Tech monopolists are squeezing consumers, workers, and smaller businesses, and, with social media’s business model of engagement through enragement, contributing to the polarization of our society. Big Tech learned the lessons of Big Pharma, and since at least the second Obama term has been engaged in stealthily trying to embed restrictions on legislation and regulations in trade pacts.
Its use of this strategy became widely visible in October 2023, when the Biden administration formally withdrew U.S. support for four specific provisions limiting digital regulation that lobbyists had convinced the Trump administration to propose at the WTO four years before. The Trump-era terms that the Biden administration refused to support were a departure from provisions incorporated into earlier U.S. trade agreements and appear in almost none of the nearly 200 existing trade agreements with digital trade or e-commerce provisions worldwide. https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/04/big-tech-digital-trade-regulation/
NEWS AND NOTES
AI: RESIST THE MACHINE APOCALYPSE by Iain McGilchrist [] there is much to fear if we leave important decisions in the hands of AI. All decisions affecting humans are moral decisions. And morality is not purely utilitarian; it cannot be reduced to calculation. Every human situation is unique, its uniqueness arising from personal history, consciousness, memory, intention, all that is not explicit, all that we mean by the deceptively simple word “emotion,” all the experience and understanding gained through and stored in the body, all that makes us humans and not machines. Goodness requires virtuous minds, not merely following rules. It’s worth pointing out that people with schizophrenia exhibit thinking and behavior consistent with left-hemisphere overdrive and right-hemisphere hypofunction. They see a world of bits and pieces, and they often imagine that people have become inanimate, machine-like, or zombies. To them nothing seems real, and the world seems a simulacrum, a pretense, a play put on to deceive them: A person may look like a person, but uncannily isn’t. To me, the belief that machines could become sentient is the obverse of the view that we, sentient beings, are really just machines. https://www.firstthings.com/article/2024/03/resist-the-machine-apocalypse
AI: The Scariest Part About Artificial Intelligence Between its water use, energy use, e-waste, and need for critical minerals that could better be used on renewable energy, A.I. could trash our chances of a sustainable future. The amount of water that A.I. uses is unconscionable, particularly given that so many of its data centers are in desert regions that can ill afford to squander it. A.I. uses this much water because of the computing power it requires, which necessitates chilled water to cool down equipment—some of which then evaporates in the cooling process, meaning that it cannot be reused. The Financial Times recently reported academic projections showing that A.I. demand may use about half the amount of water consumed by the United Kingdom in a year. Around the world, communities are rightly beginning to resist the construction of new data centers for this reason.
Then there’s A.I.’s energy use, which could double by 2026, according to a January report by the International Energy Association. That’s the equivalent of adding a new heavily industrialized country, like Sweden or Germany, to the planet.
Microsoft’s own environmental reports reveal these immense problems: As the company has built more platforms for generative A.I., its resource consumption has skyrocketed. In 2022, the company’s use of both water and electricity increased by one-third, its largest uptick ever.
Part of what’s so galling about A.I. imperiling the physical resources we need to live comfortably on earth and endangering the energy transition is that it’s wholly unnecessary. A.I. isn’t worth its significant costs. You don’t have to be a Luddite—or an insecure creative like me—to fear this technology and the sinister disregard for the human future it reflects. Communities, governments, and even those working in the tech industry should shut these dangerous and parasitical robots down before it’s too late. https://newrepublic.com/article/179538/environment-artificial-intelligence-water-energy
AI: Deepfake Abuse is a Crisis Paris Marx is joined by Kat Tenbarge to discuss the proliferation of AI-generated, non-consensual sexual images, their impact on the victims, and the potential fallout for tech companies who helped make it all possible. Note there is some discussion of self-harm and suicide in this episode. 1 hour 9 minutes audio: https://techwontsave.us/episode/215_deepfake_abuse_is_a_crisis_w_kat_tenbarge
BROADBAND: US broadband customer growth stalls in Q1New customer sign-ups in the US broadband industry slowed down dramatically in the first quarter of this year, according to a pair of analyst groups. But they're not sure why it happened. "It remains fairly clear that macro/competitive pressures are high, subscriber growth should remain negative for most, and ACP will be disruptive," wrote the financial analysts with KeyBanc Capital Markets in a note to investors Wednesday, pointing to the expected end of the US government's Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). The financial analysts at New Street Research agreed. "Our preliminary forecast for 1Q24 has [customer] adds well below the prior year and the pre-pandemic period," they wrote in their own note to investors Thursday. "Is this a dip, following a few years of faster than normal growth? Is this excess growth enabled by ACP evaporating?" wondered the New Street analysts. "Essentially, is this a temporary slowdown, the new normal, or will growth slow further?" the New Street analysts continued. "We don't know the answer to this yet, though we believe the market has years of growth above the pace of household formation ahead. Broadband penetration is currently at 87%, and we forecast it getting to over 90% eventually." https://www.benton.org/headlines/us-broadband-customer-growth-stalls-q1
CELLPHONES/ DATA INDUSTRY: Defining a city using cell-phone data In a recent Perspective in Nature Cities, SFI Professor Geoffrey West, External Professor Luís Bettencourt (University of Chicago), and co-authors propose that the geolocated data from the world's more than 7 billion cell phone users could be used to map out city limits. Cell phone data accurately reveal people's presence, movements and social interactions over space and time; these data are becoming the most widespread proxy for drawing city limits. Pairing cell phone data with other datasets, such as remote-sensing imagery and census data, could further improve accuracy and help advance the science of cities as complex systems and their role in global sustainability. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-city-cell.html
CHILDREN: Can We Save Our Children From Smartphones? Wall Street Journal (paywalled) There’s a funny thing that happens in a nation’s thoughts. At some point everyone knows something is true, and talks about it with each other. The truth becomes a cliché before it becomes actionable. Then a person of high respect, a good-faith scholar who respects data, say, comes forward with evidence proving what everyone knows, and it is galvanizing. It hits like a thunderclap, and gives us all permission to know what we know and act on it. That is my impression of Jonathan Haidt’s new book, “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing An Epidemic of Mental Illness,” that it has broken through and is clearing the way for parents’ groups and individuals to move forward together on an established idea. Mr. Haidt, a widely admired social psychologist who teaches at New York University’s Stern School of Business, has spent his career studying emotion, culture and morality, turning along the way to child development and adolescent mental health. What we all know is that there’s a mental-health crisis among the young, that they seem to have become addicted to social media and gaming, and that these two facts seem obviously connected. Mr. Haidt says, and shows, that the latter is a cause of the former. https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-we-save-our-children-from-smartphones-03eaf449 See also:
COPPER/INDUSTRY: Copper decommissions spread across the US According to the financial analysts at New Street Research, Frontier and TDS Telecom are eyeing the savings they might be able to derive from shuttering legacy network technology. To be clear, virtually all of the US market's telco operators are shifting from copper to fiber for their new network buildouts and upgrades. Indeed, the Fiber Broadband Association and RVA Market Research and Consulting estimate that fiber lines now pass nearly 78 million US homes, up 13% from a year ago. What's unclear though is whether every single decommissioned copper location will be serviced by fiber. In 2015, the Federal Communications Commission outlined rules for carriers that intend to turn off copper networks and replace them with fiber. The agency noted that operators should feel free to make the switch as long as they keep providing services to customers. https://www.benton.org/headlines/copper-decommissions-spread-across-us
ECONOMICS: Forbes Billionaires List Shows 'Utterly Unconscionable' Wealth Growth of World's Richest The Forbes Billionaires List "is essentially an annual calculation of how much of the wealth created by the global economy is captured by a tiny caste of oligarchs rather than being used to benefit humanity as a whole." he business magazine unveiled its 2024 Billionaires List, featuring near the top a number of U.S. tech billionaires who have aggressively opposed workers' rights movements and fair taxation. The magazine reported that the number of worldwide billionaires grew by 141 in the past year, with 2,781 people holding wealth that exceeds $1 billion. Those people own combined assets of $14.2 trillion, exceeding the gross domestic product of every country in the world except the U.S. and China.Bernard Arnault, head of the LVMH fashion and cosmetics empire in France, currently holds the top slot on the Billionaires List, while Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos are No. 2 and No. 3 on the list. Both Musk and Bezos have garnered international attention in recent years for their companies' illegal anti-union activity, and Tesla and Amazon have both avoided billions of dollars in federal taxes in recent years. https://www.commondreams.org/news/forbes-list-billionaires
DISCLAIMER: includes politics: EVs: Behind EV Push, a Wealth Transfer From Red to Blue Regions, Federal electric vehicle mandates are being criticized as ‘class warfare’ with far reaching implications for certain parts of America. “This isn’t industrial policy,” Robert Bryce, author and energy analyst, told The Epoch Times. “In reality it’s a type of class warfare that will prevent low- and middle-income consumers from being able to afford new cars.” The new EPA mandate is “aimed at accommodating a very narrow segment of the auto-buying public: wealthy, white Democrats who live in a handful of liberal communities,” Mr. Bryce said. “EV ownership is largely defined by class, ideology, and geography.” There are practical reasons why people are unwilling to spend thousands of dollars more on electric cars. According to a November 2023 AAA survey, the primary reasons for people not to buy electric cars are a lack of charging stations, limited range, and time to charge the battery. A recent Rasmussen poll found that 65 percent of Americans surveyed don’t think they’re likely to make an EV their next automobile purchase. Another poll of voters found that only 14 percent were strongly in favor of regulations to phase out gas-powered cars and trucks, while nearly 60 percent were against. Opinions split along party lines, with 53 of Democrats in favor of the EPA regulations and 76 percent of Republicans against, with 59 percent of independents also opposing. The strongest support for EV mandates came from people earning more than $150,000 a year. https://lists.youmaker.com/archive/aU9GYOF6E/RontmvJPy/zLlUYabyaej5
HEALTH: Our Brains Are in Trouble: Nearly Half the World Living with Neurological Illness New research estimates that nearly half of people globally are living with a condition like Alzheimer’s, stroke, or epilepsy https://gizmodo.com/our-brains-are-in-trouble-nearly-half-the-world-living-1851346031 STUDY: Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422(24)00038-3/fulltext
HEALTH: Blood–brain barrier integrity depends on a protein that is altered in some neurodegenerative diseases, study reveals https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-bloodbrain-barrier-protein-neurodegenerative-diseases.html Study: (mice) Endothelial TDP-43 controls sprouting angiogenesis and vascular barrier integrity, and its deletion triggers neuroinflammation https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/177819
HEALTH/WARFARE: The war inside your mind: unprotected brain battlefields and neuro-vulnerability Now the grim reality is that like so many other aspects of science and technology all ostensibly benign, decent, therapeutic, and beneficial they also contain a dark, malevolent, destructive warlike side as well. Our brains are vulnerable daily within a complex electromagnetic—cyber—RF saturated environment and that vulnerability is critical to grasping our collective dilemma. Cognitive integritys is a paramount risk for our times. The war for your brain—targeted cognitive conflict and mind wars, Dual use neuroscience: the healing imperative versus the harming imperative, Technological progress in neuroscience and the dance with the devil, Brain vulnerability—scalar waves and NeuroStrike, https://www.academia.edu/articles/10.20935/AcadBiol6156
HEALTH CANCER: (these are estimates) (Funding by the American Cancer Society and WHO IS a conflict of interest.) Global cancer statistics 2022: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries. Global cancer statistics by world region for the year 2022 based on updated estimates “The current global statistics for the year 2022 indicate that there were almost 20 million new cases of cancer and close to 10 million cancer deaths. Demographics-based predictions indicate that the annual number of new cases of cancer will reach 35 million by 2050, a 77% increase from the 2022 level. The overall scale of cancer and the diversity of cancer profiles by world region and human development level reemphasize the need for a global escalation of targeted cancer control measures. Investments in prevention, including the targeting of key risk factors for cancer (including smoking, overweight and obesity, and infections), can avert millions of future cancer diagnoses and save many lives worldwide,188 bringing huge economic as well as societal dividends to countries over the forthcoming decades.” This work was supported by the International Agency for Research on Cancer/World Health Organization. . The authors are not funded by or key personnel for any of these grants, and their salary is solely funded through American Cancer Society funds. https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac.21834 (Funding by the American Cancer Society and WHO IS a conflict of interest.)
HEALTH AIR POLLUTION: Opinion: Air pollution, neurodegeneration, neuropsychiatric, and neurodevelopmental disorders An opinion paper published by University of Montana professor Lilian Calderón-Garcidueñas MD, Ph.D. and co-authors, Dr. Alberto Ayala and Dr. Partha Mukherjee discussed how US citizens are not fully aware of the harmful brain impact of exposures to ubiquitous anthropogenic combustion emissions and friction-derived nanoparticles, industrial nanoplastics, wildfires and smoke plumes of soot. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-opinion-air-pollution-neurodegeneration-neuropsychiatric.html
HEALTH CANCER: Colorectal Cancer Is Striking Young People, and ‘Some New Exposure’ May Be Fueling It From 2000 to 2020, the incidence rate of colorectal cancer decreased by nearly half. However, among people under 50, the rate rose. (no mention of RF/cellphones) https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/colorectal-cancer-is-striking-young-people-and-some-new-exposure-may-be-fueling-it-5606292
INDUSTRY EVENT (Exploitative) : From Fear to Confidence: Women’s Journeys Toward Digital Equity On Tuesday, April 9th, please join us at 1 PM ET for an online discussion about the digital adoption journeys of low-income Black/African American and Latina women https://www.benton.org/newsletter/fear-confidence-womens-journeys-toward-digital-equity (The term Digital Equity is suspect, thumbs down for exploitation of many groups, and not discerning between internet access and the method of delivery)
INDUSTRY: IOT: Mobile as an IoT gateway: The next giant leap in IoT architecture A network of a physical thing or device is the most obvious layer in IoT architecture. But those physical things or devices have limited connectivity capabilities. Sensors use Bluetooth low energy (BLE) for low-power wireless communications or ZigBee, local area network (LAN), home area network (HAN) and personal area network (PAN). These protocols cannot directly connect to larger networks like wide area networks (WAN) or the Internet. That’s why an IoT gateway is essential. It offers sensors a single point of contact with external networks using Wi-Fi, GSM, Bluetooth, or other types of connectivity. Our smartphones already have these capabilities inbuilt. The combination of massive wireless connectivity and rich cellular networks provides uninterrupted access to the Internet. On the other hand, the tsunami of embedded, tiny, low-power, wearable, IoT and many more devices cannot enjoy the same level of universal access to the Internet. Here is where the IoT mobile app architecture fulfills this gap. [] The solution to all these challenges is a low-power, ubiquitous, last-inch networking approach facilitated by Wi-Fi and BLE. Almost all smartphones have these inbuilt. And the global network of cellular networks can easily fulfill all the limitations of industrial gateways. Hence, using mobile as an IoT gateway can take IoT solution development and deployment to a new level. []Mobile as a gateway enables an open IoT structure, promoting the development and growth of IoT networks quickly. If successfully deployed via the global smartphone infrastructure, it can expedite the growth of IoT networks cost-effectively and conveniently. https://www.softwebsolutions.com/resources/mobile-device-as-an-IoT-gateway.html
LIGHTING: How we eclipsed our low-dopamine state How light transformed our lives | What is a "low-dopamine" state of mind?
DISCLAIMER: includes politics: POLITICS BIG TECH: Elon Musk is elevating the global extreme right The billionaire wants to advance his political program while preserving his power and wealth As the Democratic Party has targeted the tech industry for greater regulation and billionaires to pay higher taxes, Musk’s incentive to turn to the political right has only grown. Conservatives are not only willing to embrace him, but will eagerly defend his power just as they do with other corporate titans. In the United States, Musk has shifted his base of operations from Democratic California to Republican Texas after being wooed by the latter’s governor Greg Abbott. He has a long-running problem with the Securities and Exchange Commission after they held him accountable for lying about having funding to take Tesla private in 2018. He’s also hidden injuries at Tesla from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, blasted the Fish and Wildlife Agency for doing environmental reviews of SpaceX’s operations in Texas, and has a history of conflicts with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. [ ] The United States is the place where Musk’s political and business interests are most closely aligned, since he lives there and his companies are based there. As Tesla and SpaceX have grown, he wants to make sure they can continue ignoring environmental and safety regulations and that his vast wealth will not be targeted by lawmakers. That creates an incentive to back the Republican Party, even beyond his political views — though it certainly helps that he agrees with them on a long list of issues. The Republicans also want to be close to the man who was lauded for so long and held up as the creator of our collective future. Seizing him for their project is politically valuable, meaning there’s mutual benefit to the alliance. Mixed motivations are still dangerous [ ] Ultimately, Musk is not alone in this. He’s just the most visible Silicon Valley leader to have openly embraced white nationalism and far-right politics to defend the power and wealth he accumulated since the internet’s privatization in the 1990s..https://disconnect.blog/elon-musk-is-building-ties-with-the-global-extreme-right/ (hyperlinks live at link)
METAVERSE DERRICK BROZE: Blending Reality: The WEF Calls for Creation of Metaverse Identity in Latest Push for Digital Dystopia https://www.activistpost.com/2024/04/blending-reality-the-wef-calls-for-creation-of-metaverse-identity-in-latest-push-for-digital-dystopia.html
NATURE: Four in five bird species cannot tolerate intense human pressures, data show Currently 14% of the world's 11,000 bird species are threatened with extinction. A new study assessed the populations of bird species across a spectrum of landscapes from pristine habitats to human-dominated environments. [ ] The researchers quantified tolerance to breeding in human-dominated environments for 6,000 bird species. The data on birds originated from citizen science observations from the eBird project from 2013–2021. The data on the extent of human impact was the Human Footprint Index that summarizes the combined pressures of built environments, human population density, night-time lights, agriculture and roads. STUDY: Bird species' tolerance to human pressures and associations with population change https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.13816
SURVEILLANCE – INDUSTRY-POTS AND PANS: WIFI SENSING – “There is a new way for folks to track and spy on you. A recent article in the MIT Technology Review described how WiFi tracking has become a usable technology. WiFi tracking measures the way that WiFi signals bounce around objects in a way that can be reverse-engineered to show the shapes of objects in the environment. Scientists and vendors have been working for a decade to create a viable product using WiFi sensing. The two most likely products that have been investigated are to monitor breathing or detect falls in the home. Breath monitoring is a useful tool to diagnose problems like sleep apnea or identify emergencies like a stroke or heart attack. Fall monitors are a useful tool for seniors who remain in their homes since falling is one of the most common problems and sources of injuries for seniors. However, both of those use cases have already been solved using other technologies. Breath monitors are using other wireless frequencies, or are more commonly using microphones. It’s also becoming common to use ultra-wideband radar to detect things since it has smaller wavelengths and can better define objects. There are already devices in use in places like hospitals and prisons that are used to monitor that patients and prisoners are where they are supposed to be and that they are not experiencing breathing issues. For a WiFi system to produce the same resolution as Ultra-wideband radar requires interpreting readings from multiple WiFi devices within a home. WiFi sensing is still an attractive idea since almost every home now has multiple WiFi transmitters in place. There are folks working to build the technology into smart-phone and WiFi router chips, which would make WiFi sensing an everyday technology.I t’s easy to see the appeal of the technology. While motion detectors can tell you that a stranger is in your home, WiFi sensing has the potential to pin down exactly where they are and even give some of what they are doing. For now, WiFi sensing is already good enough to 100% detect human presence in a home. One of Verizon’s new Fios routers include a human presence detector powered by Origin Wireless. https://potsandpansbyccg.com/2024/04/05/wifi-sensing/ MIT article: How Wi-Fi sensing became usable tech After a decade of obscurity, the technology is being used to track people’s movements. https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/02/27/1088154/wifi-sensing-tracking-movements/
Comment: Does the combination of WiFi sensing and 5G beam-forming translate into weaponization and Havana Syndrome?
EVENTS
DATES: Tuesday APRIL 9 7:30 ET World Renown Medical RFR/EMF Expert Dr. Sharon Goldberg MD in collaboration with Canadians For Safe Technology Presents a free webinar: Health Effects Of Wireless Radiation In The Elderly And Steps To Minimize Harm. Our elders and our children are the most biologically affected by RFR/EMF. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn more on the issue if you are an elder, planning to be one or if you have elders in your life that you want to keep healthy & well.
Everyone is welcome and please feel free to share. Event & Zoom link:
https://gem.godaddy.com/p/3a28391 (reminder to leave your camera off in the zoom gallery to reduce demand for cell towers caused by video)