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You Know About Flock Cameras, Meet Nema Nodes: They Turn Streetlights Into A Surveillance Network
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this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2026
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You can't control if you are in a place where wifi is turned on... The "wifi radar" doesn't need you to have a device with wifi on to "see" you - it "sees" YOU in the physical world. Your body blocking the signal.
Also, on the actual OP subject, a Nema Node is basically just a specific power socket... Wild that they can basically just install extra power outlets all over the city and then later go plug in an AI face tracker 5000 to every one of them with no further oversight just because "the outlet was already there"...
It seems to me more that they are stating the way the regulations are written, if they install the outlets now, they don't have to get anyone's permission to install the surveillance later. Which is wild if true.
lol if only
Unless we are talking about a different "wifi radar" here, it doesn't need you to have wifi on your person to track you, the radio waves being emitted by the wifi device (like a router) are being tracked and they can tell where you are and where you are going based on the interference your meat creates. If they have a "wifi radar" on every street light in your city, they could just literally "watch" you from the moment you leave your house. You could be completely tech naked and wearing a full body suit and a mask, but at some point you still had to leave your house, and chances are they can figure out who lives at that address.
Thank you. Was gonna reply to him but got interrupted and accidentally commented under you.
So here's a link to a less technical video.
https://youtu.be/L3Ki1EIWMrI
But you understand how radar works right? Well Wifi is just radar that won't burst your eardrums.
Turning of YOUR wifi does NOTHING.