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What kind of good aspiring totalitarian state doesn't ID their citizens by camera recognition? ID cards, pfft
You have to tie the face to a name in the first place, doing it by forcing all the serfs to provide references is a good way to let them know their place in the scheme*, although with ubiquitous electronic surveillance it's probably more accurate to derive the identity from metadata than to rely on the serfs being honest about who they are when they go for their mandatory induction.
*Lunar House is where we punish people for not being British. National ID means punishing people in the same way for being British.
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What kind of good aspiring totalitarian state doesn't ID their citizens by camera recognition? ID cards, pfft