> "it doesn't give them any capabilities they didn't already have" Quantity has a quality all of it's own. While currently the police can attempt to observe a

> "it doesn't give them any capabilities they didn't already have" Quantity has a quality all of it's own. While currently the police can attempt to observe and memorize every face they see during their patrols, and where/when they saw it, doing this without a technological assist will be fruitless. Police without technology can memorize the faces of a few select persons of interests, but for tracking the entire public they are relatively worthless. This technology threatens to change this. > "if they do _anything_ with it it will eventually mess up and they will be eviscerated in court." Why are you so confident of that? UAE police have been credibly accused of systematic human rights violations in the recent past, and I've seen no hint of eviscerating over that...