{"id":230485,"date":"2026-02-04T05:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/researchers-warn-wifi-could-become-an-invisible-mass-surveillance-system"},"modified":"2026-02-04T05:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:21:13","slug":"researchers-warn-wifi-could-become-an-invisible-mass-surveillance-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/researchers-warn-wifi-could-become-an-invisible-mass-surveillance-system","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Warn: WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-warn-wifi-could-become-an-invisible-mass-surveillance-system2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers say a new technology can identify individuals even when they are not carrying a WiFi device by passively recording signals in radio networks, raising serious privacy concerns and prompting calls for stronger protections. Walking past a caf\u00e9 with an active WiFi network could be enough<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say a new technology can identify individuals even when they are not carrying a WiFi device by passively recording signals in radio networks, raising serious privacy concerns and prompting calls for stronger protections. Walking past a caf\u00e9 with an active WiFi network could be enough<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,1412,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-privacy","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230485","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}