“I’ll grant you an OUTSIDE chance of facial recognition, but you don’t need a drone to do that, just surveillance cameras. . .”
The facial recognition capability is apparently available and being used even by our smart phones.
My wife’s android smart phone went into its second anniversary in early January.
She thought that she had lost some photos.
After looking around the photo sites, we discovered that her photos had been stored not just by date. Her photos were stored: by parties, vacations and many by person apparently based on facial recognition. She has the latest Android 4.4 system.
My newer smartphone with a 5 something system, is linked with the Amazon Cloud and it does some interesting storing of photos. I’m not seeing any sorting of photos by person.
However, I have the CameraMX app, and with Amazon/Google, who knows what they can do with my photos.
And your phone is close, and being pointed directly at the faces in question.
From a drone, there’s distance, angle, and obfuscation issues to solve ( like. . . hats. . . )
Don’t think the state of the art is THAT advanced, yet. . .