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So when a crime happens in public: in addition to a dump of all cellphones in the area they'll also have access to all scanned faces and license plates (via lidar) to reconstruct what happened. Plus potentially an always-on eye in the sky via drones/planes which allows them to "rewind" peoples and cars movements up until that point. Pretty scary to think how easy their jobs will be.

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This already exists. I posted links in response to the OP referencing a RadioLab episode where precisely this occurred over Fallujah and helped to track down suicide bombers/bomb makers.

The'll have instant connection to any CCTV facing public places (including hotel corridors) and any dash cam. After all, all the videos will be uploaded to data centers via 7G.

Identification of humans, dogs, car plates will be in real time plus the identities will be logged for 5 years.

The CCTVs will record in PetaHD, enough for fingerprint identification from distance of 120 meters.

PetaHD © records use two cameras (for 3D) with auto zooming for moving objects.

All cars will have black boxes with video and sound recording. Illegal turns will be autofined (if you were able to turn illegally, because most of the time your car won't allow you).

> Illegal turns will be autofined

I also expect the fines to get lower once everybody gets a couple of fines per day on average.

No, they won't fine anyone until you protest against the state, and then they will crush you with "the law".

Don't forget logged local wifi, bluetooth and NFC connection records, and the sum total of any geotagged images or videos uploaded around that time and place.

Suspicion will be auto-assigned to people who are detected to have phones (via video analyzed pocket bulge or historic behavior) but which are not emitting signals due for example to 'flight mode', or those who lend NFC identities, which may become illegal or against terms of service.

> Plus potentially an always-on eye in the sky via drones/planes

I'm convinced that this will be a "bonus feature" if/when Google/Facebook/SpaceX get their balloons/drones/satellites off the ground. I don't want to live in that future.

Crime will likely shift to hacking said systems.

That would make a cool sci-fi scenario. Man robs bank... wait, who would still use cash in the future? A man kills another, but the computers show him at home, waking up late, travelling to work, logging on his work PC. Except, the killed man was an owner of one of the encryption keys for the global metadata logging/surveillance system, and the criminal managed to kill that man and steal the key, altering all the computer logs to cover his tracks.

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