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I will say with full confidence that this technology most certainly will be abused, regardless of whether it is regulated, and that the most flagrant abuses will be committed by organizations that are practically above the law. No regulation will stop the Chinese government, and there is not and never will be the political will to push through regulations powerful enough to constrain the NSA.

However, the regulations will be powerful enough stop any beneficial uses of facial recognition because say, the CDC, will follow the regulations to the letter and not spend the GDP of a South American nation in fighting it tooth and claw.