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Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning Systems — mentioned by sweetjuly

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:11:38 GMT

Relatedly, one of my favorite recent papers is "Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning System" [1]. In the paper, they (ab)use the fact that smartphones report the location of WiFi access points to public databases in order to track human migration over several large scale events (from natural disasters to the invasion of Ukraine). [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.14975

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Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning Systems — mentioned by Eduard

Tue, 28 May 2024 10:45:36 GMT

My critique is not about the paper _content_, it is about the paper _title_, which currently (arXiv:2405.14975v1 ) verbatim is: "Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning Systems". Understand it as a minor pet peeve on my side that I would prefer a less sensational, better disambiguated title in order for the paper to express its content and significance. After all, it's arxiv.org, and possibly a preprint open for feedback.

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Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning Systems — HN submission

Mon, 27 May 2024 16:25:53 GMT

Surveilling the masses with wi-fi-based positioning systems

444 points; 142 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.