re: Hawley: Flock Cameras admitted they are saving images of every American in their vehicles

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I wonder how many of those flock supporters would be ok with a govt contractor with a camera pointed in their windows.

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It's. Not. Just. A. Camera.

From CambridgeAnalytica

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The license-plate camera you drive past without a second thought may soon do far more than read your plate. A new capability from the defense contractor Leonardo, marketed under its ELSAG license-plate brand as SignalTrace, is designed to reach past your bumper and into your pockets — logging the Bluetooth signature of your phone, the earbuds in your ears, the watch on your wrist, and tying all of it to your car. First reported by 404 Media in June 2026 and since covered by TechRepublic and Jalopnik, it quietly turns roadside cameras from plate scanners into wide-net device trackers. And you were never asked.

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And USSC already ruled on warrantless tracking:

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In a ruling that could send ripples through Fourth Amendment law for years to come, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Chatrie v. United States (2026) that law enforcement does indeed conduct a Fourth Amendment search when obtaining a citizen’s location history from a tech company (in this case, Google) via a geofence warrant. Building on the precedent set in Carpenter v. United States (2018), the Court ruled that individuals retain a reasonable expectation of privacy in their cell phone location history. SCOTUS rejected the government’s argument that a short window of surveillance (in this case, two hours) does not constitute a search, and held that even brief periods of tracking can reveal constitutionally protected personal details.

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Not sure why people are so up in arms about this, this has been documented for about a decade on TV shows like Chicago PD and FBI where one of the detectives will get a still shot of some guy, facial recognition identifies him and them he can get tracked down via phone or GPS. A less advanced version is shown on Law and Order SVU but NY is always behind the times on technology.