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From reading the article, not to my understanding. This technology uses the way radio waves, in this case wifi, are bouncing around a space in order to build a picture of the people in it. These clothes just block the signals from devices underneath them. As far as I know, the shape of the garment (and therefore you) would still look the same, and then whatever recognition, gait analysis, etc would still work.
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Maybe
I was always told to keep my wifi, nfc and bluetooth off.
I have messed with the chasing your tail doohickey. Given a bunch of money, I don't see why it's not plausible.
https://github.com/ArgeliusLabs/Chasing-Your-Tail-NG
From the readme, it looks like chase your tail has a different focus than the article, which is focused on how your physical body perturbs the wifi signal, rather than probes against the wifi on your device.