Flock Cameras Can Surveil Cars Without License Plates
2026-07-05T07:23:37Z•ac0a33b389b484251c132f050f6284b07ed568c32ab5219d88f0cc93298f8a6c
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What happened
Collection of Bruce Schneier posts (June–July 2026) highlighting expanding surveillance capabilities and privacy risks, cryptographic weaknesses in the wild, a large passport data leak, and legal/policy shifts around AI. Key items: Flock’s “vehicle fingerprint” camera system that can track cars without plates; AI-enabled natural-language video search and Meta prototyping facial recognition for police/military; drone use by police to disarm suspects; surveillance-based ad targeting (Papa Johns/Instacart/NBCU); research exposing many RSA moduli with large zero patterns that are factorable; and a
Why it matters
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- Source ID
- schneier_blog
- Record identifier
- ac0a33b389b484251c132f050f6284b07ed568c32ab5219d88f0cc93298f8a6c
- Enrichment time
- 2026-07-05T07:23:37Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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