> it’s irrelevant to the topic of electronic passport credentials
Maybe for some people when they say passport they mean ID.
> the pervasive surveillance is being done at the backend
You need to get data for it to work. Like with LLMs no data = it doesn't work.
OCR on numberplate is getting data. If it was a human identifying these plates there would not be any controversy because it would not scale for total surveillance. But flock means it's done constantly and without most people even knowing and if they knew they would protest.
Checking ID is also getting data. Ability to check ID quickly and automatically means checking ID can be done more and in ways people don't even notice.
Maybe for some people when they say passport they mean ID.
> the pervasive surveillance is being done at the backend
You need to get data for it to work. Like with LLMs no data = it doesn't work.
OCR on numberplate is getting data. If it was a human identifying these plates there would not be any controversy because it would not scale for total surveillance. But flock means it's done constantly and without most people even knowing and if they knew they would protest.
Checking ID is also getting data. Ability to check ID quickly and automatically means checking ID can be done more and in ways people don't even notice.