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Funny, in the "imagine what governments are capable of" vein, I just read this[0] a few minutes ago before coming over to HN to find this post trending.

[0] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-future-takes-fl...

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Yep, been in the works for a while. Ericsson, Nokia Bell Labs and Qualcomm have been publishing press releases regarding ISAC and telecom providers also sees new potential market of S2aaS, especially if there is a push towards autonomous robots, vehicles that need the data for mapping & training data.

Future networks using millimeter-wave (mmWave) and sub-terahertz (THz) frequencies may collect or infer detailed information about people, devices, bystanders, passive objects, and environments in a sixth-generation (6G) deployment area. It may detect breathing and heart rate of biological bodies.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1069

Seems like a contender for the tricorder prize that was announced ten or so years ago might not be too far off.

Remember how for years starting in the late teens and fizzling out over covid university paper after university paper about "this is so cool look how we can see through walls by essentially using 5g and wifi as ambient light" and they steadily marched up the chain from simple room layouts to furniture layouts, occupant detection, occupant movement and then started being dressed up with the usual dogwhistle language about "emergency services" that people who are building tech to help infantry/police entry teams use to make it seem more noble and then after that it all just kinda stopped being publicized with any sort of regularity?

I'm not a conspiracy theorist but I'd say all the people working on that shit got hired.

Sorry not sorry for the run on sentence.

I stopped reading halfway through in frustration and then saw your apology.

You only need to apologise to yourself really.

I have a feeling they are not planning to sell it to government agencies for $500. Our tax dollars will go a lot less far I expect.

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