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.

  • Carmakazi@piefed.socialEnglish
    91·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      How are they going to read pet microchips? They’re not broadcasting a signal constantly.

      • hansolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
        7·
        3 months ago

        They’re not. Pet RFID chips are low frequency and have a read range of a few inches at most. By the time you pump enough energy in to get a signal a foot away, you’ve probably microwaved the pet and blown out the chip antenna.

      • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        I think they bounce rf waves off of them. Same as with money, larger bills have a magnetic strip, they can bounce rf waves off of them and see how much cash is out there if not shielded.

  • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    3 months ago

    … 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.

  • Ebby@lemmy.ssba.comEnglish
    14·
    3 months ago

    I’d be a shame if someone hid an ESP32 nearby randomly broadcasting previously detected MAC addresses.

  • Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    3 months ago

    hide your devices in a faraday cage X

    Drive around with a machine with 20k reprogrammable-MAC bluetooth radios that randomize the MAC address every 10 seconds ✓

    • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      Ya know, thats a good idea. I would make the time frame shorter depending on what the range of the transmitter is. If you switch while in range of the camera would it pick you up as two vehicles?

  • fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vipEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    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

  • wasabi_noir@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    I hope for a horrible end for whatever piece of shit decided to track pets. A curb stomping would be too kind for that kind of trash.