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SignalTrace and the Digital Footprint of Cars | Wilmington News
A new tech called SignalTrace is turning license plate readers into digital detectives by linking car movements with wireless signals from phones and smartwatches, creating an “electronic fingerprint” to track vehicles—even when plates are hidden. The company claims it solves a million crimes yearly, but privacy advocates warn that movement patterns combined with device data can reveal deeply personal info without ever seeing your name. While courts are still wrestling with location privacy, this emerging tech raises urgent questions: how much inference is too much? And where do we draw the…
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