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They are already flying over some big cities and constantly capturing everything in car-level resolution, then when a "crime" happens they can roll the tape back and see the where the car came from.

https://radiolab.org/podcast/eye-sky-2306

"Persistent Surveillance System" google blackholed of course

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Yep, a video about it capturing a murder (blurry video from 7 years ago I'm sure it's even better today):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJLr0KMsRAA

This is why everyone should vinyl wrap their cars. Then if anything happens, just peel it off.

Also why you should wear a ski mask in every bank, in case “something happens”

Perhaps the fact that it all of a sudden became acceptable (to put it mildly) to cover the lower half of one's face has some benefits after all.

After all, who could object to a safety measure?

A big point from the podcast isn't that the goal is to identify you or your car later as you might think. It's that they can "rewind" the footage and trace where the offender came from and show up at their doorsteps within minutes/hours. It's as much about traceability as identification. A vinyl wrap won't help that.

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