Military-grade sigint, aimed at Americans
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This Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to License Plate Readers
404 Media - Joseph Cox | June 8, 2026
ELSAG SignalTrace product sheet (2025)
Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions, LLC | As reported and quoted by 404 Media and multiple outlets, June 2026
Leonardo SignalTrace: how license-plate readers now track your phone (TechRepublic reprint of the ELSAG writeup)
TechRepublic | June 2026
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-leonardo-signaltrace-alpr-device-tracking/
License Plate Cameras Now Track Your Phone, Wearables, and Your Pets
Yahoo Tech | June 17, 2026
https://tech.yahoo.com/cybersecurity/articles/license-plate-cameras-now-track-182101491.html
Cops will soon upgrade to license plate readers that can track your iPhone and AirPods in public
AppleInsider | June 24, 2026
Leonardo ties phone Bluetooth IDs to plate readers
AI Weekly | June 8, 2026
https://aiweekly.co/alerts/leonardo-ties-phone-bluetooth-ids-to-plate-readers
New surveillance tech pairs your license plate with phone and Bluetooth devices
Jalopnik | June 12, 2026
Don't Like Car License Plate Readers Invading Your Privacy? It's About To Get A Lot Worse
Military.com | June 17, 2026
Leonardo shareholder structure - Ministry of Economy and Finance stake
Leonardo S.p.A. "At a Glance" corporate profile
https://www.leonardo.com/documents/15646808/0/LDO_At-glance_EN_180325.pdf
Leonardo (company) - corporate overview
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_(company))
Can't Hide Your Stride: Inferring Car Movement Patterns from Passive TPMS Measurements
Yago Lizarribar, Alessio Scalingi, and colleagues - IMDEA Networks Institute
https://networks.imdea.org/your-cars-tire-sensors-could-be-used-to-track-you/
Security and Privacy Vulnerabilities of In-Car Wireless Networks: A Tire Pressure Monitoring System Case Study
Ishtiaq Rouf, Rob Miller, Hossen Mustafa, Travis Taylor, Sangho Oh, Wenyuan Xu, Marco Gruteser, Wade Trappe, Ivan Seskar | USENIX Security Symposium, 2010
FMVSS No. 138 - Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems (TREAD Act)
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
MAC address randomization is imperfect and defeatable by fingerprinting - security research
Representative works: Martin et al., "Handoff All Your Privacy: A Review of Apple's Bluetooth Low Energy Continuity Protocol," Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs) 2019; and the broader literature on Wi-Fi and BLE probe fingerprinting
Chatrie v. United States (2026)
Supreme Court of the United States | No. 25-112 | Argued April 27, 2026; Decided June 29, 2026
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-112_0am4.pdf
Victory! Supreme Court Says Constitution Protects People's Location Data
Electronic Frontier Foundation | June 2026
In big win for Fourth Amendment advocates, the Supreme Court says geofence warrants count as a search
Reason | June 29, 2026
Schmidt v. City of Norfolk - district court ruling
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Judge Mark S. Davis | January 27, 2026
https://courthousenews.com/judge-holds-norfolks-license-plate-reader-use-constitutional/
Schmidt v. City of Norfolk - Fourth Circuit appeal
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 26-1227 (docketed Feb. 26, 2026), appeal from E.D. Va. No. 2:24-cv-00621
https://www.recordinglaw.com/news/norfolk-flock-license-plate-cameras-fourth-amendment-appeal/
The Supreme Court just handed Flock's license plate cameras a legal time bomb
The Auto Wire | July 6, 2026
Carpenter v. United States, 585 U.S. 296 (2018); United States v. Jones, 565 U.S. 400 (2012); Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967); United States v. Knotts, 460 U.S. 276 (1983)
Supreme Court of the United States
NAACP v. Alabama, 357 U.S. 449 (1958)
Supreme Court of the United States
California ALPR Privacy Act - Civil Code sections 1798.90.5 et seq.
California state law
Flock Safety Crosses 100,000 Cameras as 53 Cities Cancel Over Unauthorized Federal Data Access
TechTimes | June 29, 2026
Flock Safety's Private Surveillance State: 80 Cities Are Pulling Out
State of Surveillance | June 5, 2026
Evanston, Oak Park end contracts with Flock Safety; Illinois audit findings
ABC7 Chicago | August 2025; corroborated by the Wednesday Journal (Oak Park)
Connecticut Senate Bill 397 (2026) - ALPR regulation
Connecticut General Assembly; signed by Gov. Ned Lamont on May 4, 2026
National ANPR Service - Data Protection Impact Assessment (UK)
UK Home Office / National Police Chiefs' Council, via Statewatch
https://www.statewatch.org/media/1893/uk-home-office-anpr-network-dpia-2-21.pdf
UK Home Office data protection review of the largest vehicle surveillance system of its type in the world
Statewatch | reporting on the Home Office DPIA
GDPR Recital 30 and Article 4(1) - online identifiers as personal data; CJEU data-retention jurisprudence
Regulation (EU) 2016/679; Court of Justice of the EU cases including Digital Rights Ireland (C-293/12), Tele2/Watson (C-203/15), and La Quadrature du Net (C-511/18)
DeFlock - crowdsourced ALPR map
deflock.me (also referenced as deflock.org)
EFF Atlas of Surveillance; and the litigation and advocacy organizations
Electronic Frontier Foundation; Institute for Justice; ACLU; EPIC
https://atlasofsurveillance.org/
Cities that cancelled Flock contracts after public pressure
Wednesday Journal and multiple outlets
https://www.oakpark.com/2025/12/02/new-reports-emerge-on-border-patrol-use-of-flock-cameras/
