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by ihsw 3728 days ago
It's a quantum leap in surveillance tech -- the latency for nation-wide tracking of individuals will be phenomenally reduced. HUMINT resources can be more effectively allocated and target acquisition times can be reduced.

That said, the false positive rate is guaranteed to be high at first but the tech will be improved, furthermore the data will be correlated with other's rather than sole-sourced.

Sure they won't mind if there's collateral damage, but it's useless if it wastes time and effort by leading to the wrong person too often.