[michaelt]

Even being stopped for 20 minutes while the cops check your papers is an inconvenience and often an indignity.

And if it happens regularly - a man who looks like Bin Laden today will look just as much like him tomorrow - that would be a major inconvenience.

If you think government departments and the tech companies they outsource to are too competent to repeatedly hassle innocent people due to mistaken identities, just look at the no fly list. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List#False_positives