The network technology giant Cisco offers to turn Wi-Fi access points installed in offices and other buildings into a system that tracks the location of employees, customers, smartphones, laptops and other devices for a wide range of purposes #workersurveillance
I took a deep dive ⬇️ [thread]
I took a deep dive ⬇️ [thread]
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I'm concerned for my kids' futures. There is just an unrelenting slide into dystopia driven by corporate interests, and we're disorganised and not moving to resist it.
Why is Cisco building a panopticon?
Also does this thing track unconnected devices? As in do I have to turn off my wifi radio to be blind to it?
Read the full 25-page study here:
https://crackedlabs.org/en/data-work/publications/indoortracking
It allows organizations to leverage Cisco's wireless access points and other networking infrastructure to analyze how employees "move throughout their physical spaces" and track their behavior, location and movement patterns.
Employees who carry these devices can be identified via device IDs and usernames.
The system can also use Bluetooth/BLE for location tracking.
In addition, it can categorize people based on their movements and behavioral profiling, and makes it possible to single out and target individuals in several ways.
Companies can use the system to profile customers, make decisions on buildings or staff deployment, implement indoor navigation, patient tracking or student attendance tracking at universities.
(The emoji nod to Munsch’s “Scream.”)
Monitoring desk occupancy? Are we children?
China though, now there is a work of art. Hundreds of thousands of cameras, in each city monitoring people in real time. Everyone has a 'social score' accessible on their phones and can be denied services if it is too low.
Measuring room occupancy can be used to decrease energy use and increase air quality.
pretty sure the essence of this (wifi triangulation) has been in place for years now
Home Assistant (nerdware) already tracks & automates on facial recognition, mobile phone, bluetooth, temperature, log-in to devices, LIDAR, sound, door sensors, WiFi, implied behaviour, pressure sensors (floor, seat), door opening sensors, & more