{"id":1010051,"date":"2026-05-26T09:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010051"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:38:11","slug":"researchers-warn-new-wifi-technology-can-identify-your-even-without-tracking-your-phone-means-for-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/26\/researchers-warn-new-wifi-technology-can-identify-your-even-without-tracking-your-phone-means-for-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers warn new WiFi technology can identify your even without tracking your phone: \u2018Means for surveillance\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have warned about a new kind of surveillance technology that can turn WiFi routers into invisible tracking tools capable of identifying people even if they are not carrying a smartphone or any connected device. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis technology turns every router into a potential means for surveillance,\u201d Julian Todt, one of the authors of the study, warned. \u201cIf you regularly pass by a caf\u00e9 that operates a WiFi network, you could be identified there without noticing it and be recognized later \u2013 for example by public authorities or companies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have warned about a new kind of surveillance technology that can turn WiFi routers into invisible tracking tools capable of identifying people even if they are not carrying a smartphone or any connected device. \u201cThis technology turns every router into a potential means for surveillance,\u201d Julian Todt, one of the authors of the study, warned. \u201cIf you regularly pass by a caf\u00e9 that operates a WiFi network, you could be identified there without noticing it and be recognized later \u2013 for example by public authorities or companies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010057,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010051\/revisions\/1010057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}