They are already rolling out Face ID at airports in Europe #juliandorey #flock #surveillance #faceid

Our Take

Juliandailys' clip making the rounds — pulled from the Julian Dorey ecosystem — shows face ID checkpoints already live at European airports. It's a short, punchy cut, but the real value is what it signals: biometric tracking isn't a hypothetical future, it's an infrastructure being built right now, one convenience feature at a time. "Skip the line" is always the pitch. Permanent biometric logging is always the fine print.

We cover license plate readers, not passports, but the pattern is identical. Flock Safety didn't sell ALPR cameras to American towns as mass surveillance — it sold them as a tool to find stolen cars and solve the occasional crime. Now there are thousands of those cameras quietly logging every vehicle that passes, feeding a searchable national database most residents never voted on and most city councils barely understood when they signed the contract. Face ID at airports and plate readers on your street corner are two branches of the same tree: normalize the scan, promise it's narrow, then expand the use case once nobody's watching.

If a government or vendor tells you a tracking system is limited in scope, ask who audits that limit and what happens when the vendor changes the terms. Check our camera map to see what's already watching your own neighborhood, and head to take-action if you want to push back before plate scanning becomes as normalized as the face scanners in that clip.