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.

  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    What’s the point of even having the 4th Amendment when corporations can completely sidestep it and tell the government exactly what you’re doing all the time? Corporations and the government are essentially the same entity with this massive loophole.

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      The constitution isn’t real anymore. It hasn’t been for a long time. Nothing is getting better until we have a revolution and constitutional convention