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A surveillance product hunts people by movement patterns with no identifier

development2026-08-23

Claim

Flock's OS Investigate hunts people by movement patterns alone, with no plate, name or crime required, while Chinese institutions labeled a million social media users to war-game American elections state by state.

Reported metric: 1M users labeled

Reporting date: 2026-08-23 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to August 23, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to August 23, 2026

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Millions of home routers are turned into motion sensors

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A surveillance product hunts people by movement patterns with no identifier
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-08-23
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-08-23-people-hunted-by-movement-patterns-alone
Claim: Flock's OS Investigate hunts people by movement patterns alone, with no plate, name or crime required, while Chinese institutions labeled a million social media users to war-game American elections state by state.
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- Welcome to August 23, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-august-23-2026
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