Dartmouth College used to have a collection of Aruba access points in RF monitor-mode to collect statistics on usage of the campus WiFi network: https://www.cs

Dartmouth College used to have a collection of Aruba access points in RF monitor-mode to collect statistics on usage of the campus WiFi network: https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotz/research/project/wifi-measure/index.html https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotz/research/project/wifi-mea... They have also collected data directly from the campus WiFi network access points. They replaced the WiFi network access points recently with a new system from Mist: https://edscoop.com/how-dartmouth-is-transforming-its-on-campus-wi-fi-network/ https://edscoop.com/how-dartmouth-is-transforming-its-on-cam... A standard feature of Mist's system is location tracking using both WiFi and Bluetooth. Essentially the network administrators have the ability to know the location of any WiFi or Bluetooth device to within a meter or so. Mist also uses AI to analyze network derived data in a large variety of ways: https://www.juniper.net/us/en/products/mist-ai.html https://www.juniper.net/us/en/products/mist-ai.html There are API's that can be used to access all this data. This is all useful for troubleshooting network problems and altering network behavior, but can also obviously be used to spy on people. The infrastructure is all there, you just have to flip the switch by changing your intent. I'm sure lots of places have Mist based wireless networks. What do the owners of those networks do with this capability? Who knows? I don't think there is any USA government regulation of what a corporation does with its own local wireless networks. It is not illegal to do location tracking of company employees for example, or of anyone on company property for that matter. The USA really needs some privacy standards. The smaller cell size of 5G cellular networks allows for fine grain indoor and outdoor tracking of phones also, although there are some regulations on that.