Americans? This is being rolled out all over the west, and was already pervasive everywhere else. China uses "subtle" cameras but there's just so many that you can't help but constantly see them around any city center, although I think I actually prefer them hiding the cameras (certainly better than London atm)

Note that all the facial recognition is being done by governments, which is the entity everyone suggests using to protect against facial recognition.

https://etias.com/articles/eu-biometric-border-checks-begin-...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gp7j55zxvo (under the control of the executive)

https://www.politico.eu/article/how-facial-recognition-is-ta... (under the control of the executive)

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202405/police-in-germany-usi...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/italy-outlaws-facial-reco...

The important part about the Italian "ban" is, as with most privacy laws in the EU, the government bans facial recognition for companies, and explicitly allows the government to use it for everything they do)

This is common in the EU. For example, the GPDR guarantees that your medical data isn't used by companies. That sounds great! Except for the exceptions: insurance and health care providers are exempted, courts (even foreign ones) are excempted (and so a judge can subpoena your private medical information for divorce or custody cases), the police is exempted, youth services is exempted, ...