And what's the purpose of cookies? I'm saying if a store used ther CCTV systems to track the behaviour of individual customers, and was building a database of

And what's the purpose of cookies? I'm saying if a store used ther CCTV systems to track the behaviour of individual customers, and was building a database of that information, and pestered their customers whose apparel foiled their facial recognition, then that would be pretty much exactly what WP are doing here. What the tools used might have originally been designed for doesn't make any difference IMO.