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Research Notes on Radio Sensing, Walls, and Privacy

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A Z Mackay
Jul 03, 2026
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What happens when the thing that treats a wall as porous is no longer a strange government gadget outside the house, but the normal radio layer of phones, routers, access points, cars, tags and base stations? Cameras are easy to recognise as privacy problems. Radio is harder because it arrives as linking, finding, unlocking, safety and care. The useful …

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