Category: Surveillance

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.

Garrett Langley, CEO of Flock Safety, believes that your privacy shouldn’t exist. Garrett has gone as far as claiming that it is “terrorism” to archive and log where his AI camera systems are located.

Flock Safety was founded by Garrett Langley, Matt Feury, and Paige Todd, and is headquarted at 1160 Howell Mill Road NW, Suite 210, Atlanta Georgia, United States.

Flock’s Product

The future of the United States could look very different if Flock is allowed to proliferate further. Flock’s roadside license plate reading cameras have been under extra legal and civil scrutiny recently, due to their extremely invasive measures.

Currently, Flock operates in 49 U.S. States, London, Toronto, Sydney, Berlin, and Tokyo. The company produces:

• Automated License Plate Recognition Cameras
• Video Surveillance Systems
• Gunfire Locator Systems
• Person Lookup Aggregation Tools
• Manual PTZ Cameras

It is not difficult to see how Flock’s contracts with law enforcement almost nation-wide will lead to an aggregated database linking every American citizen to their vehicle, in a private database that cannot even be audited.