This has been reported and going on for a while. * MIT Technology review has a story on this [1] * Police robots in China scan all the faces they come across

This has been reported and going on for a while. * MIT Technology review has a story on this [1] * Police robots in China scan all the faces they come across to identify fugitives [2] * JD (i.e., the competitor of Alibaba which is somewhat analogous to Amazon here) You can pay for deliveries using facial recognition [3] [1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603494/10-breakthrough-technologies-2017-paying-with-your-face/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603494/10-breakthrough-te... [2] http://gbtimes.com/china/police-robot-makes-china-debut http://gbtimes.com/china/police-robot-makes-china-debut [3] https://qz.com/1009155/chinas-second-largest-ecommerce-company-jd-jd-just-used-a-robot-to-deliver-packages/ https://qz.com/1009155/chinas-second-largest-ecommerce-compa...