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"By 2020, about 30,000 unmanned drones are expected to be deployed in the United States for the purpose of surveillance and law enforcement"

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Given the direction it's going, USA will likely want face recognition in the streets in the near future. I wonder how will the government convince their citizens it's for their own good. Maybe it will start in troublesome neighborhoods, show some benefits, and slowly expand everywhere.

The same way they used 9/11 to sell mass surveillance: using fear. Home invasions, muggings, child predators, think of the children. Maybe have news networks report more about certain type of crimes. Make sure to report on the few instances that installed cameras did help solve. If street cameras do stop some crimes, it will be difficult to argue against them, because you can't really have an expectation of privacy in the street.

The great irony is Americans (and most of the Western world) are now living in the safest, lowest-crime periods in history. It's truly double-speak to fear monger about gun violence, terrorism, muggings, etc. when statistically one's odds of dying or becoming sick from bad diet, bad water, air pollution, car accidents, even hospital visits, are an order of magnitude more likely.

Dictatorship

https://longreads.com/2019/06/21/nothing-kept-me-up-at-night...

I read this article a few days ago about WAMI technology, and I wasn't remotely aware of how advanced drone surveillance tech is.

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