I agree with your points and with Schneier's position that surveillance is problematic, not facial recognition in particular. Schneier's article is published a

I agree with your points and with Schneier's position that surveillance is problematic, not facial recognition in particular. Schneier's article is published as an opinion in part due to editorial convention but also because his expert opinion is that opposing facial recognition will not pragmatically curtail surveillance. On a deeper level, Schneier's point presumes that surveillance is a problem, which is an opinion and is the tacit foundation of Scheneir's article. Hence, the article is editorially categorized, correctly in my opinion, in the opinion column.