Ban Flock Act Proposed in the US Sente

Re:Ban Flock Act Proposed in the US Sente by prosopts on Sunday October 04, 2026 @02:06AM (#49951116)

Can you elaborate?

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Re:Ban Flock Act Proposed in the US Sente by rythmshifter on Sunday October 04, 2026 @02:16AM (#49951162)

I don’t mean to speak for him, but I believe what he’s saying is that if they can’t track us with flock cameras, they’ll just do it by reading our TPMS sensors as we drive down the street

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Re:Ban Flock Act Proposed in the US Sente by throwawayfifo on Sunday October 04, 2026 @02:23PM (#49956454)

Flock isn't the only system reading license plates. ALPRs have been used by various government organizations for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number-plate_recogni...

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Re:Ban Flock Act Proposed in the US Sente by exabrial on Sunday October 04, 2026 @05:11PM (#49957925)

Thats exactly right. Flock cameras allegedly listen for these sensors.

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Re:Ban Flock Act Proposed in the US Sente by ChucklsTheBeard on Monday October 05, 2026 @11:30AM (#49966172)

TPMS "Tire Pressure Monitoring System" is federally mandated (49 CFR § 571.138).

In many TPMS implementations, each tire has a sensor which broadcasts a short range signal to the ECU. Those signals include sensor identifiers (sent in the clear) so the ECU knows which tire is low.

Those signals can be picked up from 50m away. A set of 4 identifiers can be mapped to a specific car.

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