License Plate Cameras Will Soon Track Phones, Wearables, Infotainment, and Even Your Pets

2026-06-17 17:37 UTC

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.

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@Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 2026-06-17 21:20

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

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@Bluedragon012@lemmy.world 2026-06-17 21:11

Kill the rich, save the poor. Taxation, is not enough for the current era. There must be justice for the crimes committed. Once they are dead, then we can figure out how to run the world without capitalism. Untill then, the elimination of the ultra-rich by any means should be the goal. Everything else is noise. In addition: We have the power. The US power grid is fragile. As such if we all turn off our power at the exact same time, we can cripple the grid. On July 4th at 11pm cst exactly, we can all power down our homes. Even if only 50% do it, it will enough. We have the power, and we will stop these monsters by any means necessary!

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@skozzii@lemmy.ca 2026-06-17 19:40

This AI bubble is gonna crash so hard, none of this processing is sustainable and profitable.

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@fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 2026-06-17 18:18

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

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@Snowwdropp@lemmy.zip 2026-06-18 11:31

Does GDPR protect Europeans from this kind of boring surveillance dystopia?

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@GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2026-06-18 01:29

looks like all those phones with physical shutoff switches are looking pretty fuckin good now.

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