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Maybe not yet, but neither did we arrive at the current state where e.g. London has an estimated 691k registered CCTV cameras [0] (and many hundreds of thousands more unregistered, as you don't need to register ones that point only at your own property) in a day. Note that a lot of those are already interconnected and linked to recognition systems: TfL and various borough council cameras in particular as part of anti-"serious crime" initiative are an example [1].

Private exercise of the same technology is merely deterred, but not stopped by GDPR (especially now that UK is "happily gone" from "EU overregulation"...).

And of course that ignores China which has cities that have both more total(Beijing, Shanghai) and more per-kilopop (Taiyuan, Wuxi) cameras than London.

[0] https://www.cctv.co.uk/how-many-cctv-cameras-are-there-in-lo... [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/business/london-police-fa...