Here in the US, we still submit our passport photos by stapling a printed 5cm-square photo to the registration form. The resolution of a typical print at that size is crap. I doubt it’s much use for facial recognition systems.
Of course when you actually use said passport to cross a border, the government has a much better opportunity to capture a face scan or other biometrics.
I am actually less bothered by the government having my biometrics than by private megacorps having them. At least the government is nominally accountable to the people.
But yeah… US government, PRC, and the UK each has had an opportunity to scan my face and fingerprints and enter them into their respective databases. Unfortunately that’s now a cost of international travel.
