[gloosx]

I don't understand, why the author's concern is focused around surveillance through wifi. The routers are private devices, so if secured properly, what kind of backdoor a third party could use to take imagery of your house insides?

Law enforcement for decades has used commercial cellular networks to spy on people, and with the modern 5g technologies these surveillance suites are very well developed and able to see EVERYONE at scale with centimeter precision.

[SergeAx]

Amazon Alexa, Google Nest. BTW, every smatphone has a WiFi.

[gloosx]

every smartphone can report your exact location anyway, for me 5g is a much bigger privacy concern than wifi could ever be.

[SergeAx]

Smartphone cannot report your location inside the room with 10cm precision. Or so we thought not long ago.

[gloosx]

This year technology around 5g allows indoor tracking with <1m precision. A lot of work is ongoing to adopt this massively, as the demand is colossal.