Flock Cameras Can Surveil Cars Without License Plates
2026-07-05T19:23:41Z•bc8976ea59fa38fe2d9a7de711dd1eac876cf93582689849c6eb9219e45f49e7
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What happened
Multiple Schneier blog posts highlight escalating privacy, security, and legal risks: Flock’s “vehicle fingerprint” tech can track cars without license plates, enabling multi-geo searches by police; AI advances permit natural-language queries over video and Meta is prototyping facial-recognition for police/military use. Research found many real-world RSA moduli with long runs of zeros that make keys factorable, and a database of ~1M passports was leaked after a low-value ID system was breached. Other items cover surveillance-based targeted advertising (Papa Johns/Instacart/NBCU), a drone used/
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