Alas, this the problem of dealing with autocratic regimes that invade your space. The counter-espionage makes you look a lot like the invaders, via The Saturday Paper:
We’ve all seen it in some American police drama: the line-up from which a victim of crime is asked to pick out the perpetrator among a range of suspects.
Now envision a situation where those suspects are selected by an algorithm capable of scanning the biometric data of almost every citizen of the country, held on a single central government database. Where we are all potential suspects, all the time, and, unlike those in an old-fashioned line-up, are completely unaware of it. Where any one of us – particularly if we are female or a person of colour – could be falsely identified on the basis of a picture taken as we go about our daily life, on the street or at the football. Where the state could go after dissenters, in the style of the crackdown on protesters in Hong Kong.
