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License Plate Cameras Will Soon Track Phones, Wearables, Infotainment, and Even Your Pets (www.thedrive.com)
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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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[–] imperial_bouncer@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Or motivate them to tactically acquire new hardware.

The elites don't want you to know this but the cameras in the park are free, you can take them home.

[–] Snowwdropp@lemmy.zip 11 points 19 hours ago

Strategically Transfer Equipment to Another Location

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I had heard previously that shining multiple laser pointers at a camera will break it. Just a thought.

[–] Mcdolan@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

How powerful do we need to get for that. It'd be a clean way to work on the issue. You'll need to be in line of sight though i imagine.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

We got into this in detail on other social media. Some camera types are more susceptible, but the more powerful lasers are dangerous as shit , that could take out any camera. You need eye protection, and welding goggles might not do it because it's different wavelengths. I'm not a technical guy so I can't say precisely.

But the regular laser pointers can take out some cameras.

[–] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 1 points 20 hours ago

Scavenger hunt!