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by BoorishBears 2363 days ago
Again, I'm not saying we have China's system, but the end of the comment talks about the citizens acting as enablers.

US citizens are not that far off from them...

You could sell a lot of people on 500MP cameras to detect people in stadiums "for terrorism", and in fact I'd be surprised if we don't already do something similar

After all, we already saw private citizens scanning faces at events: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/future-en...

And we've actually tried to make prepaid phones require ID (which is the spirit of the biometrics)... no suprise, with the terrorism excuse: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lawmakers-require-id-to-buy-pre...