If you thought flock was bad, check out Leonardo SignalTrace - this is stalking on a whole new level

Our Take

Louis Rossmann has built a reputation for digging into corporate and government overreach most people never hear about, and his latest video on Leonardo ELSAG's SignalTrace is a reminder that Flock Safety isn't the only player in the automated license plate reader game. While Flock has dominated the public conversation — and rightly so, given its rapid expansion into neighborhoods, HOAs, and small-town police departments — SignalTrace suggests the surveillance industry is deeper and more fragmented than most watchdogs, including us, can fully map in real time.

That fragmentation is exactly the problem. Every time a new vendor enters the ALPR space with its own branding, its own data retention policies, and its own murky relationships with law enforcement, it gets harder for ordinary people to know who's collecting their movements and why. Rossmann's framing — that this is 'stalking on a whole new level' — isn't hyperbole when you consider that these systems are often deployed with zero public input, no warrant requirement, and little to no transparency about who can query the data later.

We can't verify every technical claim in the video, and we'd encourage viewers to treat it as a starting point for their own research rather than gospel. But the broader point stands: license plate surveillance is expanding faster than the laws meant to govern it. If you want to see what's already watching your street, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back locally, our take-action guide walks you through it.