A new kind of license-plate-reading camera will also scrape the smart devices you take with you, and wrap all that data in a nice little bow for law enforcement and the government.

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.

    • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
      41·
      16 hours ago

      Eh it’s not that hard. The tech is just

      • BLE radar.
      • a webcam streaming to a cheap ALR program.
      • Other antennas as needed.

      Can’t be that expensive. How they come together (power, software) is an amount to work, along with maintenance.

      Edit: oh and the threat of the violence monopoly being angry at you.

      • ITGuyLevi@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        9 hours ago

        There is also the other path… Use the sensors they are installing everywhere, it’s not like security is a feature on most of these cameras.