Millions of Comcast routers are now Wi-Fi powered motion detectors

Your home router can already do a lot, but that didn't stop Comcast from adding another feature to its Wi-Fi routers: Motion ...
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Comcast's Xfinity Shield turns your router into a motion sensor — and it may share what it sees

Xfinity Shield turns compatible Xfinity Gateways into motion sensors using existing Wi-Fi signals and connected devices. Wi-Fi Motion is opt-in and disabled by default, but Comcast may disclose ...
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Comcast adds motion sensing to millions of its newer routers, with a privacy catch

A new feature added to Comcast's newest routers can detect if there is motion is inside your home without needing traditional motion sensors.
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Comcast Is Turning Millions of Routers Into Motion Sensors

Your Xfinity router might already be able to sense when someone walks through your house. It didn’t cost you a thing. Comcast has started rolling out a new feature called WiFi Motion. It turns your ...
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Comcast Owes Breach Victims Money; Its New Router Feature Logs When You Sleep

Comcast launched Xfinity Shield on August 18, 2026, giving every subscriber with a compatible router a free motion-sensing system that creates a timestamped log of household movement — and ...