{"id":288548,"date":"2026-07-12T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/new-digital-surveillance-tools-threaten-gun-owner-privacy\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T07:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:40:07","slug":"new-digital-surveillance-tools-threaten-gun-owner-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/new-digital-surveillance-tools-threaten-gun-owner-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"New Digital Surveillance Tools Threaten Gun Owner Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanrifleman.org\/content\/new-digital-surveillance-tools-threaten-gun-owner-privacy\/\">New Digital Surveillance Tools Threaten Gun Owner Privacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanrifleman.org\/content\/new-digital-surveillance-tools-threaten-gun-owner-privacy\/\">https:\/\/www.americanrifleman.org\/content\/new-digital-surveillance-tools-threaten-gun-owner-privacy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-12 07:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.americanrifleman.org\">www.americanrifleman.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leonardo, a company that holds multiple surveillance-related defense and government contracts, recently introduced ELSAG SignalTrace, and its hardware is being offered as a bolt-on supplement to the more than 110,000 Flock cameras taking and storing photos of vehicles on public roadways nationwide. The technology contained within that hardware could conceivably track who has recently purchased a firearm and where they&#8217;re taking it.<\/p>\n<p>The SignalTrace webpage explains the system can detect cellphone manufacturer and make, audio system in the vehicle, smartwatches, wireless ear buds and more. Tire pressure monitors, laptops and iPads are also included as part of the \u201celectronic fingerprint.\u201d According to analysis by TechRepublic, this even includes those popular microchips used to reunite lost pets with their owner, along with RFID signals from tags used by many retailers for inventory convenience.<\/p>\n<p>Enough FFLs use such RFID technology that the National Shooting Sports Foundation published a \u201cBest Practices\u201d bulletin five years before Leonardo\u2019s introduction. The trade organization\u2019s advice is straightforward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur position can be summarized simply as \u2018Turn It Off, Take It Off at the Checkout Counter.\u2019\u201d Failure to do so today could mean that, at the very least, that gun you\u2019re taking home from the store could be identified and included in your \u201cdigital fingerprint.\u201d Consider inspecting the firearm and all packaging after making a purchase and before ever leaving the store to be sure you&#8217;ve removed all possible identifying information.<\/p>\n<p>Information collected by SignalTrace is transmitted into the cloud. There it undergoes AI analysis, and a digital fingerprint is assigned to that vehicle for law-enforcement use. If a license plate or other identifying features are captured by Flock\u2014including bumper and window stickers, according to Deflock.org\u2014they are noted.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement agencies nationwide claim the vehicle&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanrifleman.org\/content\/new-digital-surveillance-tools-threaten-gun-owner-privacy\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Digital Surveillance Tools Threaten Gun Owner Privacy https:\/\/www.americanrifleman.org\/content\/new-digital-surveillance-tools-threaten-gun-owner-privacy\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-12 07:16:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":288549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.americanrifleman.org\/media\/svcfdnh3\/resurgence-of-2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288550,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288548\/revisions\/288550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}