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by max76 2568 days ago
The point is that the idea of public millimeter wave surveillance has some amount of public support.

Even if they deploy an ineffective version in 12 months, in 240 months they might have effective hardware. This is the direction some people want things to go.

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> The point is that the idea of public millimeter wave surveillance has some amount of public support.

Does it? If anyone has data on this, I'd be very interested.

I've recently been giving some thought to pervasive electronic and video surveillance as an alternative (specifically not as a supplement) to the presence of armed police being deployed by default in public.

> Even if they deploy an ineffective version in 12 months, in 240 months they might have effective hardware.

Provided they can still borrow money to fund operations.

cough Uber.