{"id":85710,"date":"2026-08-23T10:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T14:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85710"},"modified":"2026-08-23T10:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T14:01:19","slug":"big-router-is-watching-you-wifi-could-secretly-track-you-even-if-you-leave-your-phone-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/big-router-is-watching-you-wifi-could-secretly-track-you-even-if-you-leave-your-phone-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Router Is Watching You: WiFi Could Secretly Track You Even If You Leave Your Phone At Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>New York Post (tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Think ditching your cellphone and laptop means nobody can track you? Think again.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered a chilling way\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/19\/lifestyle\/mom-left-terrified-after-hearing-stranger-speak-to-her-son-via-wifi-baby-monitor-so-vulnerable\/\">ordinary WiFi networks<\/a>\u00a0could work together to identify people with near-perfect accuracy \u2014 even when they aren\u2019t carrying a phone, smartwatch, Fitbit, laptop or any other connected device,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2026\/08\/260811052857.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Science Daily<\/a>.\u00a0Researchers found that unencrypted signals routinely exchanged between WiFi devices and routers can be used to create radio-based images \u2014 akin to a camera \u2014 of people and recognize them within seconds.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\">\n<div class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image__wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From New York Post (tabloid): Think ditching your cellphone and laptop means nobody can track you? Think again. Scientists have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85711,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85710\/revisions\/85711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}