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Your Heartbeat Is Now Under Surveillance

Jun 25, 2025
A new form of surveillance state is quietly emerging—one that doesn’t need your consent, your awareness, or even your face to track you. It’s no longer about cameras or fingerprint scanners. Today’s digital sentinels are tuned into something far more intimate: the invisible rhythms of your biology.

This next phase in the biometric gold rush isn’t confined to facial recognition or iris scans. That’s old news. Instead, researchers and private firms—backed by government agencies—are investing in technologies that monitor your heartbeat, your respiration, and even your stress responses through ambient signals in your environment. You don’t have to wear a device or step into a scanner. You just have to exist within range.

One such effort is being led by a Canadian company called the P2P Group, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Together, they are deploying remote sensing systems capable of detecting human life signs—heartbeat, breathing patterns, and potentially even emotional states—without physical contact or active participation from the subject. These systems can function through walls, in crowds, or at checkpoints, turning any space into a potential biosensor grid.

This isn’t science fiction—it’s emerging reality. Technologies like radar-based cardiography, RF-based respiration tracking, and passive Wi-Fi sensing are already in various stages of deployment or testing. The justification is usually public safety or national security. But as with many surveillance innovations, the line between protection and intrusion is blurry—and rapidly fading.

The real concern? These tools are being developed and tested without broad public debate, legal clarity, or ethical safeguards. In an age where data is currency and privacy is increasingly obsolete, your own heartbeat could soon become part of a digital dossier you never knew existed.

Prophecy Recon ⚔️ Joe Hawkins


 
I can see the potential for lifesaving applications. This would be great in congregate living facilities for elderly, sick, and disabled. Since these are limited facilities, employees, visitors, and residents could sign permission. There could be a period of time to allow anyone, who doesn't want the technology, to go elsewhere. Unless there's a way to disregard/mask/delete people's data as it's sensed/gathered before an alert or record is made.

This would also be a great voluntary technology for elderly, sick, or disabled living in their own homes. Linked to a medical emergency monitoring service, it would be like a super medical pendant.

There might be limited usefulness in prisons, detox, and substance abuse rehab facilities.

HOWEVER, the price in sacrificed privacy is far, far too high for this to be used in public or publicly accessible places, except in situations in which survivors of a catastrophe, such as 911, major earthquake, wildfire, etc., are being searched for.
 
That would be incredibly tempting, unethical but oh so useful in situations where people are being observed for theft, lying, or perhaps used as a clandestine lie detector. Completely unethical and illegal.

Because the heart rate is one of the indicators of stress. Which is why it's one part of the lie detector system- or so I've heard.

Very tempting for HR depts concerned about new hires, theft, honesty in job interviews.

Border police scanning a crowded airport.

People in a crowd somewhere- showing security where to zero in. Might be useful for the President's security team, to prevent the type of shooting incident that Trump endured due to Biden's incompetent security team.

Lots of applications. Most of them bad.
 
That would be incredibly tempting, unethical but oh so useful in situations where people are being observed for theft, lying, or perhaps used as a clandestine lie detector. Completely unethical and illegal.

Because the heart rate is one of the indicators of stress. Which is why it's one part of the lie detector system- or so I've heard.

Very tempting for HR depts concerned about new hires, theft, honesty in job interviews.

Border police scanning a crowded airport.

People in a crowd somewhere- showing security where to zero in. Might be useful for the President's security team, to prevent the type of shooting incident that Trump endured due to Biden's incompetent security team.

Lots of applications. Most of them bad.

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