Surveillance & Privacy
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This Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to License Plate Readers
Summary
SignalTrace represents a major escalation of mass surveillance by converting existing license plate readers into comprehensive personal tracking systems that identify specific individuals through their phones and wearables, creating persistent location profiles of the population.
SignalTrace “links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate.” It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.
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