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• 2025-12-16 - The NFC Research Archive - WhoFi: Deep Person Re-Identification via Wi-Fi Channel Signal Encoding Dec 16, 2025
  Abstract Person ReIdentification is a key and challenging task in video surveillance While traditional methods rely on visual data issues like poor lighting occlusion and suboptimal angles often hinder performance To... Read more
• 2025-12-16 - The NFC Research Archive - WhoFi: New surveillance technology can track people by how they disrupt Wi-Fi signals Dec 16, 2025
  Hi-tech surveillance technologies are a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you want sophisticated devices to detect suspicious behavior and alert authorities. But on the other, there is the need... Read more
• 2025-12-16 - The NFC Research Archive - Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals Dec 16, 2025
  Researchers in Italy have developed a way to create a biometric identifier for people based on the way the human body interferes with Wi-Fi signal propagation. The scientists claim this identifier,... Read more
• 2025-12-16 - The NFC Research Archive - New Wi-Fi fingerprint tech tracks your body without device, phone, or camera Dec 16, 2025
  Surveillance in the digital age is no longer limited to cameras and smartphones. From facial recognition to GPS logs, the tools used to monitor people have grown increasingly sophisticated. Now, researchers... Read more
• 2025-12-16 - The NFC Research Archive - Your body can be fingerprinted and tracked by Wi-Fi signals Dec 16, 2025
  As if you didn’t have enough to worry about when it comes to surveillance, researchers have discovered a new way to identify and track people using Wi-Fi signals—and I’m not... Read more
• 2025-12-16 - The NFC Research Archive - WiFi-based non-contact human presence detection technology Dec 16, 2025
  In the swiftly evolving landscape of Internet of Things IoT technology the demand for adaptive noncontact sensing has seen a considerable surge Traditional human perception technologies such as visionbased approaches... Read more
• 2025-12-09 - The NFC Research Archive - Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI Dec 9, 2025
  This article was produced with support from WIRED. Flock, the automatic license plate reader (ALPR) and AI-powered camera company, uses overseas workers from Upwork to train its machine learning algorithms, with... Read more
• 2025-12-09 - The NFC Research Archive - Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI (Wired) Dec 9, 2025
  Flock the automatic license plate reader and AIpowered camera company uses overseas workers from Upwork to train its machine learning algorithms with training material telling workers how to review and... Read more
• 2025-12-09 - The NFC Research Archive - A Vast Camera System Now Feeds Information to Police on Drivers Across the US Dec 9, 2025
  The United States public has been treated to round after round of revelations disclosing that our actions — public and private, digital and physical, criminalized and legal — are tracked... Read more
• 2025-12-09 - The NFC Research Archive - Flock Gives Law Enforcement All Over the Country Access to Your Location Dec 9, 2025
  Police in Texas, Florida, and thousands of departments nationwide can track Massachusetts drivers in real-time — without a warrant, probable cause, or even reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing. Documents obtained by... Read more