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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48289957

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.

  • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Lol

    Antennas are too hard to deploy? It’s just a radio signal. Most hackers could build a tool to record tpms sensors that pass their house.

    Are there other ways to track you, yea. But those of us that drive and keep old cars running don’t have 5g and tpms. If I leave my phone at home, the only radio signal my car puts out is the Bluetooth from the aftermarket radio I installed. I could swap that back and they’d have to use cameras to track my car.

    • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      Oh no, I wasn’t clear - they said removing the TPM sensors themselves required specialized equipment. Which I suppose is technically true, but it was the work of an hour and a harbor freight manual tire changer. So it “requires” equipment any stoned hillbilly either owns themselves or is owned by someone they know. Or they could just have a tire shop do it.

      The car I drive is modern-ish, from the last decade, but it is a really, really basic car. It doesn’t even shift it’s own gears. The instrument cluster and center console don’t even have screens in them. There is certainly not any 5G antenna, as the car predates the commercial 5G rollout.

      • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        5 hours ago

        Oh yea. It’s just replacing a valve stem. I guess the computer might bitch some if it doesn’t have any, but electrical tape fixes that light.

        I guess balancing the tire after would be the hardest part.

      • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        5 hours ago

        Yes, I know. This thread is about how they are adding radio tracking onto their cameras. Which will also make the driver identifiable for shared vehicles, or mass transit.