Please let me know if I've got this wrong.
It doesn't try to identify everyone, it checks everyone to see if they are on the list of naughty people.
I see three things happening:
- Cameras set up all over the place like ANPR cameras are (11,000 ANPR cameras in the UK?)
- Police scrambling to fill databases with as many people's face data as possible unless legislation comes in to restrict it (to criminals, people charged, people arrested, political activists?)
- Law to enforce carrying of ID as the 'obvious' solution to the arresting of innocent people with no ID on them because the 'computer said yes and he looks like the picture'.
Fortunately with my big nose and eyes-so-close-together-I-have-to-use-binoculars-as-a-monocular I'm unlikely to be a match with anyone.
You, my friend, may not be so lucky. Dress nice, speak posh and hope your doppelgänger is wanted for street crime not something middle class like tax evasion.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
