as a westerner .. in the USA / California, ubiquitous facial recognition in public places is dystopian. Yet, a conservative Japanese colleague was recruited abo

as a westerner .. in the USA / California, ubiquitous facial recognition in public places is dystopian. Yet, a conservative Japanese colleague was recruited about six years ago, to fly to Houston and work for a client building facial recognition with DeepLearning. But, he was not told the name of the client. We had lunch in Berkeley and he bragged of the pay. I was literally angry, I said "this is not going to be allowed in the West" .. here we are.. His response? he took a cellphone photo of my face quickly without permission, and laughed at my ire. He laughed at me, and he made so much money in the last six years, managing an outsourced engineering team in India among other things, that he went from working-poor in the SF Bay Area to FIRE. That all occurred before Covid-19.