Indeed. As always, the public debate (and witchhunt) is focused on the tool, the symptom, the observation, and never the underlying cause. How are these techn

Indeed. As always, the public debate (and witchhunt) is focused on the tool, the symptom, the observation, and never the underlying cause. How are these technologies being abused, and why are the perpetrators allowed to do so? The surveillance tech already exists, as a component of personalised advertising, because it makes lots of money. It's all any government needs as well. It's flown under the radar wrt. the masses, because most people have absolutely no comprehension of how that kind of thing can work and will ignore anyone talking about it because it's an SEP. But facial recognition is something which the masses can recognise, if not understand, and therefore react to as a threat. Personally I think that as long as we haven't solved the first problem then we should avoid piling more possible problems upon it, so roadblocking facial recog tech is not something I would object to. But it does miss the point by rather a large margin. I don't believe that it'll be as 'awareness-raising' as some people seem to believe either, for the reason implied above: people only care about the comprehensible threat.