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Alternatively, there's a ready market for bags that are also Faraday cages.


That doesn’t help if you don’t know you have a location tracking device on you or in your car. This specification is about detecting unknown trackers.

I’ve only read parts of it, but it seems like it’s trying to formalize the behavior that AirTags and iPhones already follow so that all phones (Android) can alert you proactively when an unwanted tracker is traveling with you.


Couldnt a moving faraday cage act as a tracking beacon?

Subject of interest to specifically pop up on cams.

I was thinking the faraday bag could show up as a black negative spot on the back of an otherwise moving human assuming one were using the WiFi signal vision trick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkHdF8tuKeU


How would you detect and track somebody with a faraday bag?


I think they’re assuming always-on fully body scanners like the TSA uses. Real time nude video feeds of the whole planet are the only thing protecting us from terrorism and stuff.

Before they implement it, they’ll probably need an excuse other than “Think of the children” though.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkHdF8tuKeU

Have you seen Aza Raskin talking about it?




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