I totally get that you want to catch the thief that stole your stuff - I get a bit angry hearing about it from here. But what I really would not want to happen

I totally get that you want to catch the thief that stole your stuff - I get a bit angry hearing about it from here. But what I really would not want to happen is some poor soul to get collared and have to defend himself because his face (mis-)matched some random street camera. Despite all the hype about "Artificial Ihtelligence", this technology is nowhere near intelligent, nor even reliable. sure, being able to make a lot of matches sometimes, on white male faces can seem impressive, and perhaps even be genuinely useful in some situations. But the databases on which these 'tools' have been trained are known to be full of garbage (remember "GIGO") and biased, so badly that the results are lawsuits about bad results from the tech. e.g., [1]. The EU is wise to start down the road of banning it, and frankly, this is just desserts for the industry that over-hyped this stuff. We already had one 'AI Winter' because of this, and apparently no one learned the lesson. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/05/uber-faces-legal-action-over-racially-discriminatory-facial-recognition-id-checks/ https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/05/uber-faces-legal-action-ov...