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Investigate and Regulate Leonardo's SignalTrace Mass Surveillance System

To: Gov. Newsom, Sen. Pérez, Asm. Harabedian

From: A verified voter in Pasadena, CA

June 24

Investigate Leonardo's SignalTrace program and push for legislation that stops this kind of warrantless mass surveillance before it becomes standard practice across the country. This system doesn't just read license plates — it silently harvests Bluetooth identifiers from phones, AirPods, smartwatches, and even pet microchips, then builds "electronic fingerprints" that track who people travel with, where they live, and what vehicles they use. No warrant. No notice. No consent. What makes this worse is that all of it gets stored indefinitely at Leonardo's Enterprise Operations Center, available to police and border agencies on demand. The EFF has already flagged that these massive data repositories are prime targets for hackers — CISA identified seven vulnerabilities in a comparable ALPR system, including missing encryption. We're not just talking about surveillance; we're talking about a poorly secured surveillance dragnet that puts millions of people at risk. This has to stop.

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