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by cj 1600 days ago
(Genuinely curious) how do you know this?
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There has been research done on gait recognition https://techxplore.com/news/2018-08-artificial-neural-networ...

mmWave can be used to identify unique traits http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/10889/%5BDCOSS19%5DmID.pdf

i recall a comment by someone claiming to be working in an antarctic base- everyone working outside would be wearing the same suit, but you could subconsciously recognize who you were looking at, at great distances, simply by the gait.

walk without rhythm ...

we're about to enter worm territory. we can't walk like regular humans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YFrFSX4cNw
It doesn't even need a radar sensor. Everyone moves in a different way, so that extracting patterns from the phone accelerometer can help to identify a person. Two people carrying the phone in the same pocket or hand will produce very different patterns that can be analyzed to extract the different behavior. All it needs is one chance in which that pattern is successfully paired with the person's identity, and from that moment on all their activities can be identified.