Facial recognition is the easy part. They can track how you walk

Our Take

Credit to the Hide & Speak crew at Verified Privacy VPN for pushing the surveillance conversation past the usual facial recognition panic. Gait analysis, keystroke dynamics, scroll patterns — these are biometric signatures you can't rotate like a password or toss like a burner phone. If their framing holds up, we're heading toward a world where identification doesn't need your face, your name, or even your device. It just needs you to move through space.

Here's the part that should worry readers of this site specifically: behavioral biometrics don't replace license plate tracking, they stack on top of it. Flock Safety's ALPR network already builds a location history on every car that passes one of its cameras, tied to a plate that's legally public but functionally becomes a tracking token once it's logged thousands of times a year. Add gait or typing signatures into the mix and you get redundant, overlapping identification systems that don't need a warrant, don't need your consent, and rarely get meaningful oversight. One system fails or gets regulated, the other picks up the slack.

The lesson isn't to panic about some sci-fi future — it's to recognize that the infrastructure for this kind of tracking is already being built in your town, often without a public vote. Check our camera map to see what's been deployed near you, and if you want to push back on it, our take-action page has concrete steps for getting these systems in front of your local council.