"For example, I do not know the name or address of most of the people I interact with in public spaces, but they are all *identifiable*, i.e. I could recognize them if I saw them elsewhere, I could describe them to someone else, I could recognize a description of them given by someone else, etc."

No you couldn't. You couldn't even come close. That's been empirically proven by law enforcement agencies time and again. People don't accurately register even the most basic details about their daily interactions, ie: was the person that just served you blonde or brunette?

The reality is, we go about our daily business without paying the slightest attention to trivial matters like what a person looks like, what they're wearing and so forth. So stop pretending that there's a security issue involved.

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