Any ban would be pointless. "Facial recognition" stopped being about faces some time ago, and now the more advanced systems look at everything from the shoulder tops on up - additional information from the shoulders, neck, ears, and so on provide additional discerning characteristics.

If "facial recognition" were banned, organizations would just start ignoring the face and proceed with other characteristics. The world of biometrics is huge, and the whole reason facial recognition is the biometric people pick on is because it is the easiest for laypeople to grasp.

This is article is nearly obsolete fear propaganda. We're getting wise to this crap, as the fear card is being played far too often, it's become the boy who cried wolf.