>I would say there’s a pretty big difference between 1:1 facial recognition for authenticating someone with their travel docs and 1:n facial recognition for dra

>I would say there’s a pretty big difference between 1:1 facial recognition for authenticating someone with their travel docs and 1:n facial recognition for dragnet surveillance. In philosophy, that's distinction without a difference. Both cases are surveillance, period. You can argue one is more limited, but reality and human nature has shown over and over again that once information is collected and stored in a sufficiently performant manner, it will tend to grow to be cross-ref'd over time.