I scanned for two weeks straight…over 20,000+ wireless signals a day, what I found explains why privacy barely exists anymore.

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been running passive wireless scans a few hours a day…..

The numbers surprised me. Analyzed an average of 17,332–27,719 unique broadcasts per day across public & private areas.
Each ping represents something with a chip: Wi-Fi routers, smart TVs, printers, wearables, Bluetooth trackers, cars, payment terminals, cameras, even appliances.

Most of these signals exist for legitimate reasons……connectivity, analytics, telemetry but the sheer volume paints a strange picture.
A single strip mall can host hundreds of devices per minute quietly exchanging identifiers and metadata.

Layer that across neighborhoods, offices and municipal networks and you start to see how dense and overlapping these invisible systems really are.

It isn’t about paranoia or evil intent; it’s the natural result of everything becoming “smart.”
But once you visualize it, the idea of real privacy starts to feel theoretical.

Curious what yall think about:

Have you measured local signal density or noticed patterns? Do you think there’s any practical way to anonymize this data at scale?
Where’s the line between convenience and surveillance for you?