Consider the scenario which is now legal in the EU: A group of police personnel watching CCTV recordings and live feeds trying to find a suspect. They do it wit

Consider the scenario which is now legal in the EU: A group of police personnel watching CCTV recordings and live feeds trying to find a suspect. They do it with their own eyes. They employ state of the art neural networks, trained on just a blurry photo and verbal description of the suspect. And it takes a lot of time. The benefits of automating this step are so large, that the ban if it were to happen will be temporary. Facial recognition is already here, and it becomes more accessible every year. I think instead of banning facial recognition we should find ways to prevent it from being abused. Something that would prevent democratic countries turning into another China or Russia of surveillance.