Does Facebook have cameras everywhere that feed facial recognition and location data into a database that correlates it with government-id information?
No, Facebook does not. That is how it is different.
facebook have everyone around you uploading photos. google and amazon have microphones in your house and houses you visit. considering the social settings on both countries it is the same coverage.
> facebook have everyone around you uploading photos. google and amazon have microphones in your house and houses you visit. considering the social settings on both countries it is the same coverage.
The main differences here aren't technical (such as camera coverage per person), but political. China is installing facial recognition cameras to non-consensually monitor an unwilling minority population in order to subjugate and eventually forcibly assimilate it. Facebook does facial recognition on images voluntarily given to it to further some creepy ad-pushing. Those are very different things.
also, can you say that facebook, advertising and thinktanks are not political in the US?
but how is this facial data collection any different than Facebook's?