Newark ICE Cameras Shattered, Flock Leaks, ALPRs Sweep Bluetooth
June 12, 2026
ICE officers in Newark are destroying and seizing surveillance cameras as federal enforcement escalates, while ALPR operators Flock and Leonardo reveal a surveillance ecosystem rife with data leaks, stalking arrests, and aggressive expansions that correlate Bluetooth devices to license plates. Police departments are facing criminal charges as officers misuse Flock to target individuals, exposing how automated tracking tools are being repurposed for personal vendettas. The simultaneous breakage of hardware in New Jersey, leaked search queries, and vendors like SignalTrace adding phone and earbud tracking demonstrates that as surveillance infrastructure deepens its reach into personal digital signatures, it is also becoming more vulnerable to physical sabotage, internal abuse, and public exposure.
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ICE Officers Break Cameras. Cops Steal Them. Welcome To New Jersey.
If federal officers are going to murder another person, it will likely happen here. Newark, New Jersey is the newest battleground for the administration, as Trump goes to war with his own constituents. The foundation was laid months ago, when ICE officers assaulted, arrested, and illegally refused t…
- media and technology
- AI governance
- structural power
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Enhanced License Plate Tracking
The surveillance company Leonardo wants more data: A surveillance company plans to add sensors to automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) that would mean the devices, as well as capture the license plate of passing vehicles, would also sweep up unique identifiers of mobile phones, wearables, and oth…
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Flock Leaked Cops’ License Plate Searches via DuckDuckGo, Bing
Flock, the automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company, exposed some of the license plate cops were looking for and the reason for doing so.
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Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People
There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
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This Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to License Plate Readers
SignalTrace “links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate.” It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.