{"id":14068,"date":"2026-07-04T05:03:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T05:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/flock-cameras-can-surveil-cars-without-license-plates-html\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T05:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T05:03:48","slug":"flock-cameras-can-surveil-cars-without-license-plates-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/flock-cameras-can-surveil-cars-without-license-plates-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Flock Cameras Can Surveil Cars Without License Plates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Flock Cameras Can Surveil Cars Without License Plates<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This is from a 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.newsobserver.com\/news\/politics-government\/article315990932.html\">company presentation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Officers can also tap into data showing a car\u2019s decals, bumper stickers, back and top racks\u2014along with temporary and unique state tags.<\/p>\n<p>Flock calls it a \u201cVehicle Fingerprint\u201d and it\u2019s touted as a way for law enforcement officials to get more information \u201ceven when you don\u2019t have full plate information,\u201d the company\u2019s presentation shows.<\/p>\n<p>The company gives police officers the ability to search that data as well, to \u201cbuild stronger cases with less information upfront.\u201d That includes being able to locate multiple vehicles law enforcement officials believe are moving together and what Flock calls a \u201cmulti geo search.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This kind of thing is older than AI; I wrote about it in my 2014 book <i>Beyond Fear<\/i>. Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA was using cell phone location data to track phones that were habitually near each other.<\/p>\n<p>As bad as Flock is, remember that anyone with broad access to cell phone location data can do the same thing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2026\/07\/flock-cameras-can-surveil-cars-without-license-plates.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flock Cameras Can Surveil Cars Without License Plates This is from a 2024 company presentation: Officers can also tap into data showing a car\u2019s decals, bumper stickers, back and top racks\u2014along with temporary and unique state tags. Flock calls it a \u201cVehicle Fingerprint\u201d and it\u2019s touted as a way for law enforcement officials to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,472,341,95,82,367,83,85,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-14068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-schneier","category-cameras","category-cars","category-cell-phones","category-geolocation","category-identification","category-privacy","category-surveillance","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}