Interesting story and his method is effective. However it is not efficient, he can only track one guy a day, possibly a week.
It's already easy to track someone down but it requires manpower, which limits the scope of tracking and requires the tracker to have a real motivation.
What's scary about mass surveillance is tracking of anyone and everyone for any reason at any time with very little required effort.
The cheat will be caught far sooner, and the PI will be out of a job.
Of course those who aren't cheating will also be caught, as the cameras identify people who look very similar, and the courts listen to how the camera has a 1 in a million chance of being wrong (therefore will identify 350 people in the US as being the same person).
It's DNA evidence problems all over again.