A theoretical system known as « WhoFi » can identify individual people through walls with a 95.5 percent accuracy rate.
Once upon a time, in their startling report titled « Bigger Monsters, Weaker Chains », ACLU analysts Jay Stanley and Barry Steinhardt argued that the US was quickly becoming a full-blown « surveillance society », where advanced technology and crumbling regulation come together to create the kind of world that was previously the domain of dystopian science fiction.
« The fact is, there are no longer any technical barriers to the Big Brother regime portrayed by George Orwell », they wrote.
That was in 2003. In the two decades since, the tech sector has unleashed a tidal wave of innovations like targeted algorithms, always-on location sharing, police face scanners, biometric passports, and surveillance drones — and that’s just the short list.
Adding to the technological horror show is a troubling new system known as « WhoFi », a high-tech apparatus that can track humans through Wi-Fi.
