Can't you exercise your freedom of the press without automatically subjecting all passers by to facial recognition? For example one could argue that the freedom

Can't you exercise your freedom of the press without automatically subjecting all passers by to facial recognition? For example one could argue that the freedom of the press would be paramount were you wanting to write a story about an event that had happened while using facial recognition to identify participants and or witnesses without letting people gather info on every person on the public street at all hours from now until forever?