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> cannot be successfully photographed

I highly, highly doubt that is the case.

Maybe it is hard to take a good photo with a phone in point and shoot mode. But any professional photographer and most experienced amateurs can absolutely take a good photo of them.

There are only two provisos: they have to use a manually adjustable camera, and they have to be able to control the lighting (even if only by asking the subjects to move around).

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If every facial recognition camera was set up by a professional wedding photographer we'd be golden.

But seriously, the minimum requirements for contrast and low-light sensitivity for facial recognition cameras should be raised, and the algorithms should do a better job of specifying confidence. If the algorithm specifies the match is not reliable, maybe police officers won't bust down the wrong guy's door.

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