RegularJoeSep 4, 2025

WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed

https://lemmy.world/post/35459487

WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

Show threadparaphrandSep 4, 2025

Damn. “TikTok would like to access WiFi”

We need new permissions for this shit. WiFi can do presence detection and now heart rate? What next? Eye tracking?

Show threadwebjukebox
I think it can also detect our neural frequencies, aka ‘read our minds’. That’s why we see ads for things we thought about but never even searched for.
Sep 5, 2025 at 1:00amWeb
Show threadThunderWhiskersSep 5, 2025
Dog… What?
Show threadtheunknownmuncherSep 5, 2025

…columbia.edu/…/mind-reading-technology-can-turn-…

We already live in a world with existing, functional mind-reading devices. There is even a device designed to help people suffering from ALS comminicate, that has a privacy feature where the device activates or deactivates whenever the user thinks a password, in order to allow the user to maintain private thoughts.

Phones are not fMRIs though.

Mind-Reading Technology Can Turn Brain Scans Into Language

Mitchell Elkind, MD, MS, MPhil, professor of neurology and epidemiology, commented on a newly developed brain-computer interface that can read a person’s thoughts & translate them into full sentences

Columbia Neurology
Show threadkrunklomSep 5, 2025

Also: wifi can read my mind.

Fucking lmfao