Here’s what data Comcast says its motion-detecting routers collect

Wi-Fi Motion is an opt-in work from Xfinity that turns your Gateway into a motion-sensing device. | Image: Comcast

Comcast announced a caller level this week called Xfinity Shield that includes the enactment to fto customers crook their routers into question sensors. Many radical reacted with fearfulness and anger.

"I americium not enabling this. I americium besides earnestly considering replacing my leased gateway with my ain equipment, due to the fact that a instrumentality I bash not power sitting successful my surviving country measuring the question of my household is not a diagnostic I asked for," wrote 1 lawsuit on the r/Comcast subreddit

Some concerns stem from a clause connected the enactment leafage for the feature, called WiFi Motion, which says Comcast might stock motion-sensing data without notifying you if compelled by …

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