That wasn't what I was suggesting.
The almost macho "I don't care about privacy" is what I was commenting on.
This thread is about email providers, so let's stick to that context in reference to concerns on privacy. It's fair to say most people don't really care that Google or the other main providers harvest data to target ads in return for that service.
I admire your ability to blithely believe that facial recognition is accurate to any degree, never mind being regulated.
China uses this surveillance to an astonishing extent.
But don't imagine its not happening elsewhere.
I work in technology, part of my engineering degree 25 odd years ago was in image processing. So I don't 'blithely' believe that it's accurate, I've read the proof that it is.
Ans yes, China use it a lot, but I doubt many would be astonished that a totalitarian regime would use such a technology extensively. They'd hardly be investing quite so heavily if it wasn't accurate and effective.
I also have no issue with it being used elsewhere. It beats the low-tech system we use today putting CCTV stills on the TV and other platforms which are far more prone to false positives.
Lives have been destroyed by people being wrongly accused; poor quality forensics have left innocent people in prison for decades, some have lost their lives.
A so-called 'copy and paste' error saw Maurice McCabe wrongly accused of child abuse.
Have gross miscarriages of justice only come about since the dawn of facial recognition? The proper application of proven technology should help to reduce such cases.
With the McCabe case, it wasn't technology that implicated him, it was people. Indeed better application of technology would have made that error impossible.