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It's been happening for ten years.

https://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/satellite-photos-cat.html

Greece had only a few hundred pools registered, and yet somehow satellite photos found almost 20k.

This was right when Greece was in the worst of their financial crisis.

The new thing here seems to be using "AI" to do it, which should scale better over manual inspection of photos.

And to take immediate actions. As they claim somewhere to have already recovered 10 M€ in taxes, having only scanned parts of the french territory. And how clever to make this campaign now, who is sad about those caught after this summer drought where water was missing everywhere.

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