This entire demo is just a surveillance state dog-whistle.

"It's used for car theft!" except the intended use is obviously target government buyers for tracking citizens.

Nothing like an OSINT company like Bellingcat hasn't done before, it's just that in those cases it was done on citizens belonging to adversary countries. It was just a matter of time, I guess.

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nubg 2 days ago | parent [-]

What?

	▲	paganel 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		See how Bellingcat was "reverse" finding the identities of Russian citizens based on the cars they were owning. Too lazy to search for the exact links, this was around 2020-2021, something like that. Later edit: Something like this [1], from late 2020: "Russian Vehicle Registration Leak Reveals Additional GRU Hackers". There were also some other articles with Google StreetView screenshots and the like, I won't search for them because even finding this one reference means I'm not doing something better with my time right now. [1] https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2020/10/22/russian-...