The irony is a dragnet facial recognition system has existed for at least 10 years that looks for people on watch lists. I know this for a fact because a friend

The irony is a dragnet facial recognition system has existed for at least 10 years that looks for people on watch lists. I know this for a fact because a friend of mine at a big name forensics shop was at a security research conference after-party and took selfies with some random people. Not a few hours later did he receive an awkward/creepy call from his boss that his bosses received a call from a government three-letter-agency person who noticed that said friend was spotted in a picture with a “foreign agent.” Sure, it’s good to know if there’s people out there who are intent on stealing trade secrets but the process of placing millions of people on watch lists doesn’t seem to lead to much than arbitrary paranoia and intentional political harassment conflated with a kernel of legitimate “baddies.”