That’s a fair point, which makes me feel even more convinced that we should be more focused on whether the technology actually works than whether it’s Orwellian

That’s a fair point, which makes me feel even more convinced that we should be more focused on whether the technology actually works than whether it’s Orwellian. Using Rekognition for this would be like hiring a fraudster construction company to build a local bridge. The bridge could collapse, nobody did publicly verifiable due diligence, and nobody would be held accountable. This could be the automated surveillance equivalent.