Flock Cameras Can Surveil Cars Without License Plates

Collection of Schneier blog posts reporting multiple security and privacy developments: Flock’s “vehicle fingerprint” camera system can identify and track cars without license plates (decals, stickers, racks), enabling expanded law-enforcement surveillance; AI enhancements to video analytics now allow natural-language queries over footage, increasing mass-surveillance capabilities; Meta is prototyping facial-recognition for smart glasses with a Pentagon supplier; a drone was used by police to disarm a suspect (robotic policing); Papa Johns and ad partners are using purchase data to predict and