{"id":219380,"date":"2025-08-04T12:10:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/alarming-new-system-can-identify-people-through-walls-using-wi-fi-signal"},"modified":"2025-08-04T12:10:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:10:04","slug":"alarming-new-system-can-identify-people-through-walls-using-wi-fi-signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/alarming-new-system-can-identify-people-through-walls-using-wi-fi-signal","title":{"rendered":"Alarming New System Can Identify People Through Walls Using Wi-Fi Signal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alarming-new-system-can-identify-people-through-walls-using-wi-fi-signal2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adding to the technological horror show is a troubling new system known as \u201cWhoFi,\u201d a high-tech apparatus that can track humans through Wi-Fi.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at the Sapienza University of Rome recently <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2507.12869\">released a paper<\/a> outlining a new system capable of detecting \u201cbiometric signatures\u201d through distortions in Wi-Fi signals. Notably, the system can surveil humans regardless of lighting conditions, and can sense them through walls.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers say that WhoFi can capture \u201crich biometric information,\u201d identifying individual people with a 95.5 percent accuracy rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding to the technological horror show is a troubling new system known as \u201cWhoFi,\u201d a high-tech apparatus that can track humans through Wi-Fi. A team of researchers at the Sapienza University of Rome recently released a paper outlining a new system capable of detecting \u201cbiometric signatures\u201d through distortions in Wi-Fi signals. Notably, the system can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,1412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}