> <i>Spurrier said: “It doesn’t take a great deal of imagination to see how something like facial recognition eats into the fabric of society and distorts relationships that are really human and really essential to a thriving democracy.... </i><p>Low tech surveillance among East Germans [1] doesn't seem to have made the place any nicer to live in. At least the high tech version just causes mistrust of law enforcement, not one's actual neighbors.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_East_Germany" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_East_Germ...</a>