All Activities Monitored: How military drone technology is quietly creeping into policing, business, and everyday life

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https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/all-activities-monitored
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21527328

Around 2006, a holy terror must have seized Iraqi insurgents. It must
have seemed that, just as at Homer’s Troy, the gods were watching the
battle from above and took sides. Seemingly without regard to whatever
precautions they might take, insurgents were being slaughtered left
and right — not only those directly confronting American troops or
government forces, but even the financiers, couriers, bomb builders,
and bomb placers. Death might find insurgents in their cars via
Hellfire missile or in their homes in the middle of the night. Friends
and compatriots were disappearing, snatched up in the desert or
arrested at checkpoints. Precautions like using burner phones or
in-person messengers no longer seemed to be working nearly as well.
Terrorist and insurgent networks were collapsing, and the numbers of
successful attacks against Americans were dropping. Why?