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AzzyHNtoday at 2:54 AM1 replyview on HN

What's the commercial use of having this data though? Or even law enforcement use? We all have our phones on us most of the time anyways, knowing where in my house I'm at doesn't really... change anything...


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transputetoday at 3:08 AM

There are 1000+ public research papers on machine learning + RF detection of human activity, including but not limited to breathing rate, keystrokes, body position, body motion, gestures, sleeping, biometric (identity) signals and more, https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=device+free+wireless+se...

What's the economic value of remote collection of human behavioral signatures without consent, integrated with AI and robotics and "digital twins"? We're not there yet, but if the technology continues improving, what's the future value of "motion capture" of humans without body-worn sensors?

In theory, this will enable "Minority Report" user interfaces. 3D gestures could be combined with "AI" voice interfaces. Biometric authentication (e.g. heart rate) could replace passwords. Walk into a room and it adapts itself to your preferences. Etc.

There are lots of "cool" Jetsons sci-fi use cases, but ONLY IF the data and automation are entirely under control of the human subjects, e.g. self-hosted home server, local GPUs, local LLM, local voice recognition, etc.