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I remember those "raise your hands above your head so we can digitally strip you nude (we won't touch ourselves, promise*)" scanners when they first came out. They were also going to replace an equally effective scan method that wasn't privacy eroding. And, guess what? You can still opt out of those a couple decades later.
*Literally happened several times. It was on the news, and it was appalling.
First we make fun of China, then we vote for money hungry politicians with a penchant for power, give in to surveillance because "it's free!", and tada, we're all becoming China (the EU is trying to introduce a backdoor into stuff again, buying surveillance tech, and thinks it's falling behind due to a lack of AI investments, and having populism take over countries). Maybe China is just the crab of societies?