[quote=“okieman, post:12, topic:996”]
I think the media (entertainment or otherwise) is irresponsible, and I’m not prepared to blame the entire public for not being tech savvy.
[/quote]Yes it’s totally the medias fault if people can’t tell fact from fiction.
And now regarding recovering data from shitty images being impossible - that really depends on the constraints.
A quick example with a (simulated) license plate quite clearly blured beyond recognition.
Can we still find out which number it is? If we know the input image (the license plate) and the blur that was applied we can just apply the same blur and see if we get the same result.
Let’s assume it’s either 110 or 111:
Blur both in the same way:
Now let’s look at the differences between 110 and our unknown number:
Enhance! As they say:
Funky, looks like the last digit is not 0. Must be 111 then. 
If you think that was a bit of a lame example maybe this is more convincing:
Now regarding the topic:
I doubt that you are going to get clearly visible faces out of that raw which I expect is what you want. If you had more images you could try some super resolution techniques but even then it’s probably going to be very hard.