> Given how many pictures governments and corporations collect from public places, the GP's concern seems moot.
That data is not centralized. If anytime you entered a gas station surveillance footage of you were associated with your passport and added to a centralized registry, I think you'd be worried too. That's what's going on here.
Yet. Flock, et al is working on that. My brother in law runs a tie company. His trucks all roll with LPR, and they get pings on the location of repo vehicles in seconds.
At the government level, slot of the Palantir work is (often illegally) joining all sorts of data for total awareness.
Where you are every minute is centralized if you use a cell phone. Even if your phone isn’t sending GPS data back somewhere, it’s still constantly pinging cell phone towers.