Thread6G is moving beyond faster wireless service toward Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC), allowing the same radio…

6G is moving beyond faster wireless service toward Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC), allowing the same radio-frequency infrastructure that transmits data to function as a radar-like sensing network. European telecommunications standards acknowledge that 6G sensing may collect personally identifiable and sensitive information including location, movement patterns, gestures, gait, facial features and even heart rate, depending on how systems are configured. This raises serious privacy concerns because sensing could potentially detect and track people who are not actively using a connected device, including indoor or through-wall applications. Combined with AI, billions of Internet-of-Things devices, smart-city infrastructure, cameras and drones, 6G could provide the technological foundation for unprecedented population monitoring and behavioral tracking. The growing surveillance capability also revives concerns about government efforts to model society using massive real-time datasets, resembling the military's earlier concept of a continuously updated “Sentient World Simulation.” Policymakers should address privacy, consent, constitutional protections and limits on government and corporate surveillance before this infrastructure becomes ubiquitous, while independent research should continue examining potential health effects from expanding radio-frequency exposure. https://jeffereyjaxen.substack.com/p/6g-isnt-faster-internet-its-open