More on wifi emotion reading.

Originally shared by David Brin

Almost any ambient radio system – like WiFi – will be able to eavesdrop and track your movements and much more. “By measuring subtle changes in breathing and heart rhythms, EQ-Radio is 87 percent accurate at detecting if a person is excited, happy, angry or sad — and can do so without on-body sensors… Using wireless signals reflected off people’s bodies, the device measures heartbeats as accurately as an ECG monitor, with a margin of error of approximately 0.3 percent.”

This does not have to mean an end to privacy or freedom. It does mean that the earnest, well-meaning prescriptions offered by most civil liberties paladins – to yell “stop, looking at us, Big Brother!” – are pathetically futile. I have to wonder when they (any of them) will wake up to the fact that cowering and hiding simply will not and cannot work. It never ever has.

One thing has worked. It is responsible for what freedom we do have! And it is being played out, right now, on our streets. It is the one and only thing that can work tomorrow. And it is the one thing that all the privacy mavens, liberty activists and security “experts” absolutely refuse to allow into their minds.

It is happening despite them. The solution is unfolding, as it had to, and as I predicted, 20 years ago. The street is making use of technology to look back at power. Bravely, assertively insisting on transparency for those with power. Alas, the “leaders” among the anti-orwellians will – apparently – be the last to realize any of this — that you do not fight Big Brother by hiding from him.

You stop him from oppressing you by getting in his face.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-detect-emotions-remotely-with-wireless-signals?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=fe66890448-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_147a5a48c1-fe66890448-281972889