CEO Dr. Andrew K Rogers
Though we couldn’t find an image, Dr. Andrew K Rogers is CEO of Leonardo’s US division. Leonardo is the creator of SignalTrace, a surveillance addition software for Flock Safety Systems, allowing the aggregation and association between radio frequency emissions, and YOU.
How Does It Work?
Many devices you likely carry with you on a day to day basis emit signals. Broadly, we can classify all of these emissions as radio emissions.
A few very common items you may own that emit these signals: a cell phone, smartwatch, airpods, laptops, tablets, and even potentially a newer vehicle’s head unit. Each of these devices also have unique metadata that is broadcast, identifiers that do not change.
SignalTrace is a software developed by Leonardo, so that ALPR surveillance cameras can associate your device identifiers / RF emissions to you directly. This way, an aggregate database of what devices are uniquely yours can be created, and used to identify you later.
Avoidance
It is difficult to avoid this type of surveillance, especially if you have a newer vehicle. Your first line of defense would ideally be making sure your lawmakers do not approve of such mass surveillance and bulk data collection.
To avoid signal identification, your best method (outside of leaving electronics somewhere that you are not), is a faraday cage. Including electronics in a type of container that does not allow signals to physically escape, and having them on airplane mode anyways. This prevents capture of your more common RF emissions, but if your vehicle’s head unit is equipped with radio telemetry equipment, it might need to be disabled.