Comment on New Xfinity router motion-detecting feature stokes privacy fears — feature powered by Wi-Fi signals
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 20 hours ago
Xfinity claims it can distinguish between a pet and a person, and you can customize the system’s sensitivity or the frequency of notifications.
Is this bullshit? I’m not completely sure but it sure sounds like bullshit. It sounds like they’re in the end stage of enshittification where they start lying to even the people who they’re betraying everyone else on behalf of, and claiming to be able to harvest and monetize data that has only the dimmest glimmer of accuracy to it.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
Probably not bullshit. There are research to collaborate this:
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 19 hours ago
I’m still just skeptical. There’s a massive difference between researchers coming up with a model that works between two cooperating routers in perfect conditions, versus one router of a lowest-bidder-poorly-maintained-15-years-old model communicating with a PlayStation from within a closet with intervening electrical wiring in the wall and everything else.