#XFINITY #WIFI SPIES ON YOUR HOME MOVES— #CIA CONTRACTOR #PALANTIR GAINS ACCESS VIA #COMCAST
Comcast’s Xfinity has rolled out “WiFi Motion,” a real-time in-home motion tracking system for FREE, just as its data infrastructure now connects to CIA-linked surveillance firm Palantir through a new integration with Databricks, a leading enterprise AI and data platform provider.
This comes as #DARPA launches a new military AI program—MAGICS—designed to predict human behavior at scale.
The news also comes as the #Trump admin expands Palantir’s role in a federal effort to consolidate Americans’ personal data.
Without additional cameras or sensors, the WiFi motion system uses signal disruptions between devices to track movement. Room to room, across floors, and even down to small gestures like a hand wave.
When surveillance features are "free", your data and privacy are usually the real price.
https://modernity.news/2025/07/02/xfinity-wifi-spies-on-your-home-moves-cia-contractor-palantir-gains-access-via-comcast/
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#stalking #surveillance #gov #why
Comcast’s Xfinity has rolled out “WiFi Motion,” a real-time in-home motion tracking system for FREE, just as its data infrastructure now connects to CIA-linked surveillance firm Palantir through a new integration with Databricks, a leading enterprise AI and data platform provider.
This comes as #DARPA launches a new military AI program—MAGICS—designed to predict human behavior at scale.
The news also comes as the #Trump admin expands Palantir’s role in a federal effort to consolidate Americans’ personal data.
Without additional cameras or sensors, the WiFi motion system uses signal disruptions between devices to track movement. Room to room, across floors, and even down to small gestures like a hand wave.
When surveillance features are "free", your data and privacy are usually the real price.
https://modernity.news/2025/07/02/xfinity-wifi-spies-on-your-home-moves-cia-contractor-palantir-gains-access-via-comcast/
@westcoast_intel
#stalking #surveillance #gov #why
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Xfinity WiFi Spies on Your Home Moves—CIA Contractor Palantir Gains Access via Comcast
Your home router now knows when you move—and a CIA-linked surveillance contractor may know too
#Comcast Turns Millions Of #Routers Into #Motion Sensors - The Same #WiFi Signals Can ID You With 99.5% Accuracy -ZH
Dear Comcast customers: The internet gateway in your living room is now a motion sensor. It's free of charge, and the data can go to law enforcement without further notice. What's more, researchers have already shown that these same signals can identify exactly who is in the room.
On Tuesday, Comcast unveiled Xfinity Shield, a home security platform built entirely around the WiFi network. Its centerpiece, WiFi Motion, turns the leased gateway into a motion detector at no extra charge. According to Comcast, a typical customer has roughly 36 devices connected to their WiFi.
WiFi Motion works because a human body moving through a room disturbs the signal field between the gateway and stationary connected devices, like a printer or a game console. While the feature is opt-in and - according to Comcast's rollout materials - does not track phones or reach through WiFi extenders, those limitations are choices Comcast made in software, not limitations of the technology itself.
Comcast says WiFi Motion works "without recording video, capturing images or identifying individuals."
The company is not shy about identification as a product. The $15-a-month tier, Xfinity Shield Select, adds AI-powered cameras that identify people, pets, packages and vehicles. The free tier's restraint is a line drawn one product SKU away.
The company's own terms spell out where the data can go. According to the fine print that drew criticism when the feature first appeared last year, Comcast "may disclose information generated by your WiFi Motion to third parties without further notice" in connection with law enforcement investigations. Users pointed out at the time that the only complete opt-out is returning the Xfinity router.
The true capabilities of this technology were laid out by researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in findings presented last November at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Taipei. Using nothing but the traffic from an ordinary WiFi network, their system identified people with 99.5 percent accuracy in a study of 197 participants, regardless of viewing angle or how the person walked.
The method exploits beamforming feedback information (BFI) - housekeeping signals that every connected device sends back to the router so it can aim its transmissions efficiently. Beamforming has shipped with consumer WiFi hardware since WiFi 5. Because this feedback travels unencrypted, anyone within radio range can read it and, using a trained model, convert it into a crude radio image of whoever is present.
Dear Comcast customers: The internet gateway in your living room is now a motion sensor. It's free of charge, and the data can go to law enforcement without further notice. What's more, researchers have already shown that these same signals can identify exactly who is in the room.
On Tuesday, Comcast unveiled Xfinity Shield, a home security platform built entirely around the WiFi network. Its centerpiece, WiFi Motion, turns the leased gateway into a motion detector at no extra charge. According to Comcast, a typical customer has roughly 36 devices connected to their WiFi.
WiFi Motion works because a human body moving through a room disturbs the signal field between the gateway and stationary connected devices, like a printer or a game console. While the feature is opt-in and - according to Comcast's rollout materials - does not track phones or reach through WiFi extenders, those limitations are choices Comcast made in software, not limitations of the technology itself.
Comcast says WiFi Motion works "without recording video, capturing images or identifying individuals."
The company is not shy about identification as a product. The $15-a-month tier, Xfinity Shield Select, adds AI-powered cameras that identify people, pets, packages and vehicles. The free tier's restraint is a line drawn one product SKU away.
The company's own terms spell out where the data can go. According to the fine print that drew criticism when the feature first appeared last year, Comcast "may disclose information generated by your WiFi Motion to third parties without further notice" in connection with law enforcement investigations. Users pointed out at the time that the only complete opt-out is returning the Xfinity router.
The true capabilities of this technology were laid out by researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in findings presented last November at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Taipei. Using nothing but the traffic from an ordinary WiFi network, their system identified people with 99.5 percent accuracy in a study of 197 participants, regardless of viewing angle or how the person walked.
The method exploits beamforming feedback information (BFI) - housekeeping signals that every connected device sends back to the router so it can aim its transmissions efficiently. Beamforming has shipped with consumer WiFi hardware since WiFi 5. Because this feedback travels unencrypted, anyone within radio range can read it and, using a trained model, convert it into a crude radio image of whoever is present.
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Comcast Turns Millions Of Routers Into Motion Sensors - The Same WiFi Signals Can ID You With 99.5% Accuracy
Comcast "may disclose information generated by your WiFi Motion to third parties without further notice" in connection with law enforcement investigations.