Defense contractor Leonardo is promoting a new technology called SignalTrace that will package plate cameras with sensors that can scrape unique identifiers tied to your smart devices and make that data available to law enforcement.
Police, border security, and other government agencies already comprise Leonardo’s customer base, and with this technology, those clients seek to correlate footage from these cameras to phones, tablets, wearables, AirTags, and, naturally, the electronics inside cars themselves.
If SignalTrace can pick up your Bluetooth headphones, you can be sure it’ll also be looking out for your vehicle’s 5G hotspot, infotainment system, and even its tire pressure monitoring sensors. The company includes pet microchips as a potential entry point to tracking.
17 Jun 2026 19:37
How many criminals are taking along their microchipped pets to and from their crimes?
Rhetorical question I know. They simply do not want to allow dissidents and undesirables the freedom of movement.
Also, if you contribute to a project like this, you are a traitor and should be treated as such.
17 Jun 2026 19:49
Jokes on you. I leave all my electronics at home. Fuck having a digital leash, especially one that can be tracked.
17 Jun 2026 20:04
... pet microchips are passive LF RFID tags, they have a readable range of maybe 15cm? Unless they've figured out some way to power them at distance (or they're sticking UHF tags in your dogs, which they arent) without frying the camera and giving
everyone cancer, they're inert. What weird marketing hype.
17 Jun 2026 20:14
ghost in the shell laughing man shit.
a couple years go by and they don't know how to track people regularly anymore.
so if we bypass these sensors and algorithms, we become invisible in plain sight
17 Jun 2026 20:18
If they track all that other stuff then they are not 'license plate cameras'.
17 Jun 2026 20:29
Maybe time to start creating devices that spam various Bluetooth MACs and just leave them around... Raise the noise floor a bit
17 Jun 2026 20:36
License plate cameras will soon discover rapid unscheduled disassembly
17 Jun 2026 20:38
Lemmy
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