It goes without saying that the definition of “suspected criminals” will expand without limit to include unpermitted home repairs and improvements, lawn-watering during “drought conditions”, unauthorized gatherings (we will remember the time when we called them “barbeques”), use of non-carbon-compliant lawn mowers, burning wood on the wrong day, doing an oil change on your own car in your own driveway, etc.
The step after that will be routine “precautionary” logging of your activities, as we are seeing with license plate readers.
“It goes without saying that the definition of “suspected criminals” will expand without limit to include unpermitted home repairs and improvements,...”
I was surpised to find out that our city already does this to some extent, by utilizing satellite photos to track changes in home/property “footprints.” Common improvements that property owners make without permits are decks and pools.
When I heard a city employee describing use of this tactic, I can remember thinking to myself, “Creepy...”