Raw LLM Responses

Remember that the government (or "society" or however you want to call it) has no actual power to ban things. Look at the war on drugs. Did that multi-decade-spanning, globe-spanning ban stop the use of cheap street drugs? Absolutely not. It created the black market in drugs and that market flourished (and continues to flourish). Facial recognition is here to stay and it's a fundamentally defensive technology. I'm reminded of the bans by many governments on the sale of high-grade body-armor and shields (on the fear that insurrectionists might buy them in bulk and stage an armed resistance). In reality, the effect of banning defensive technologies like shields and body-armor is that it deprives peaceful, law-abiding citizens of defensive advantages they could obtain against private criminals. This prevents the scales from being tipped in favor of peaceful, law-abiding citizens even though the technology for this is already present. The net effect is that private criminals are not foiled by private, wholly-defensive countermeasures that relieve overburdened public police of yet another public defense problem. Rather than trying to fight gravity, we need to accept that facial-recognition is here to stay. We are transitioning into a world where all public spaces (and even many presumably private spaces) are fully-transparent. This will create demand for exotic privacy measures (think "Faraday-cage bedrooms") so that people can have privacy in at least some aspect of their lives. But the public space itself is going to become increasingly transparent. Will we have real-time satellite feed Google Maps in 10 or 20 years? It's a thought...