Smart streetlights hide hockey-puck NEMA nodes that can add cameras, air sensors, and 5G gear with no public vote or new hardware.

Cross posted from https://piefed.social/c/privacy@lemmy.world/p/2212799/you-know-about-flock-cameras-meet-nema-nodes-they-turn-streetlights-into-a-surveillance

Standardized NEMA sockets let municipalities add cameras and air sensors to existing poles with no public vote or new hardware

    • BloodMuffin@lemmy.caEnglish
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      12 hours ago

      i turn off my WiFi everytime I leave home. this prevents my phone from broadcasting my saved WiFi networks. therefore public WiFis can not identify me via that list.

      can you explain to be why that isn’t a viable option?

      • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        11 hours ago

        Unless we are talking about a different “wifi radar” here, it doesn’t need you to have wifi on your person to track you, the radio waves being emitted by the wifi device (like a router) are being tracked and they can tell where you are and where you are going based on the interference your meat creates. If they have a “wifi radar” on every street light in your city, they could just literally “watch” you from the moment you leave your house. You could be completely tech naked and wearing a full body suit and a mask, but at some point you still had to leave your house, and chances are they can figure out who lives at that address.