Cloakers

Anyone would presume that this could never happen. Basically if you knew someone’s number plate, you could see where they had travelled, simply by visiting the system’s URL.

Sheffield City Council’s automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) system exposed to the internet 8.6 million records of road journeys made by thousands of people.

The ANPR camera system’s internal management dashboard could be accessed by simply entering its IP address into a web browser. No login details or authentication of any sort was needed to view and search the live system – which logs where and when vehicles, identified by their number plates, travel through Sheffield’s road network.
The Register

So, supposedly, our heartbeats form a “cardiac signature” that is more unique than our faces.

An individual’s cardiac signature is unique, though, and unlike faces or gait, it remains constant and cannot be altered or disguised.

A new device, developed for the Pentagon after US Special Forces requested it, can identify people without seeing their face: instead it detects their unique cardiac signature with an infrared laser. While it works at 200 meters (219 yards), longer distances could be possible with a better laser.

…the new device, called Jetson, uses a technique known as laser vibrometry to detect the surface movement caused by the heartbeat. This works though typical clothing like a shirt and a jacket (though not thicker clothing such as a winter coat).

So, won’t work so good during winter. Otherwise, kinda hard to avoid unless you have some kind of vibrating device built into your clothing.

Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613891/the-pentagon-has-a-laser-that-can-identify-people-from-a-distanceby-their-heartbeat/

In mid-August the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Transportation Security Administration announced Metro has paid $100,000 each for several TSA-approved portable terahertz millimeter-wave screening devices. Made by the U.K.-based company ThruVision, the devices will be deployed within the city’s metro rail system to detect at a distance weapons capable of causing mass casualties.

https://medium.com/scientific-american/will-l-a-s-anti-terrorist-subway-scanners-be-adopted-everywhere-4db8a4de1c22

Operators compare CCTV footage with what the scanners see – which is cold patches around the body that could mean a suicide vest or weapon. Someone suspicious will be assessed by sniffer dogs.

And the scanners have a range of 10 metres, which is handy, and works on people in motion.

But the technology seems to have some serious problems:

The device cannot see inside bodies, backpacks or shoes.

In a demonstration of the system at ThruVision’s offices, the operator immediately spotted the large bunch of keys in my back left pocket but didn’t notice the closed medium-size Swiss Army knife in my back right pocket until told it was there. He was unsurprised: the knife is about the smallest size they expect to be detectable at that distance and resolution, and it is not among the items LA Metro wants to detect.