( March 1, 2022; Wired )
Description: "The company’s ATAP research team is using radar to help computers respond to your movements, like turning off a TV if it senses you've dozed off."
It sounds futuristic and perhaps more than a little invasive—a computer watching your every move? But it feels less creepy once you learn that these technologies don't have to rely on a camera to see where you are and what you're doing. Instead, they use radar. Google's Advanced Technology and Products division—better known as ATAP, the department behind oddball projects such as a touch-sensitive denim jacket—has spent the past year exploring how computers can use radar to understand our needs or intentions and then react to us appropriately.
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Google has deployed radar in the past for things like motion detection to stop or pause music and also for sleep tracking. The concept depends on a branch of science, known as proxemics, which is, "the study of how people use space around them to mediate social interactions". In addition to tracking proximity, the tecnique also makes use of other signals like orientation and direction of motion - all suplemented by AI machine learning algorithms.
What do you think, is this less invasive because it uses radar instead of cameras?
-h/t Bruce Schneier
Read the rest from Wired: Google's New Tech Can Read Your Body Language—Without Cameras
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Some people when they read about an advance like this, the first thing they think about is security, and it can be said that this device is much safer than the cameras used by smart devices, since any data processed is done locally, and not is sent to the cloud.
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It may have danger about our body or no?
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I'm not aware of any physical safety issues with radar. I think the main risks, if any, would be related to privacy.
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The truth is that I do not like it , whether it is a radar or something else since I think it is invasive , and the bad thing about all this is that the future looks like this , I do not know if you are aware that in CHINA it already rewards the best and punishes to the worst according to their criteria, I mean the people, imagine criteria established by other people, for something it is good, however this is bad for another, that is why I do not like it, privacy is ideal, but in the future it will be very committed, or it will not exist
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It has been a surprising development. It is useful when used by good people. Bad people can abuse it.
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Google robots will do what humans did intuitively before. I can say it's great
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