Two decades past, here in Australia, I worked on a proposal for a another party to develop uniform ubiquitous CCTV software infrastructure for the UK as part of a tender process.

The people I worked for literally tagged it in house as Panopticon.

Big brother social objections aside the one feature I like was ironing out the wrinkles on buses exchanging their most recent footage whenever they parked up at a stop or at lights within wireless range.

The driving intent, at theat time. as I was told, was to be sure to have useful footage survive in the event of another wave of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings

I parted ways not long after that initial period as I expected things to drift in the direction of "Well, now that we have this, how can we use it to increasingly track people other than actual terrorists?"

I wish we could just ban CCTV cameras in public areas (banned for use by private or government entities), as the privacy tradeoff is immense.

There's a UK show called Hunted where contestants go on the run and are chased by law enforcement.

It is amazing to see just how quickly they are found because of the all the CCTV cameras.