Ordinary Wi-Fi can identify people with nearly 100% accuracy

New Atlas | Aug 26, 2026 at 5:59 PM
  • Those alterations contain enough biometric information for the system to “learn” a person and later distinguish them from everyone else, much like a radio fingerprint.
  • If an AI model has enough of these distortions, it learns your radio signature, much like a camera-based system learns a face.
  • A radio fingerprint can potentially be gathered while you simply walk through a Wi-Fi-covered space, without touching anything, carrying anything, or knowing that biometric information is being collected at all.