The main issue with surveillance is the same AI vs automation issue.
Once the population is fine with being tracked 24⁄7 and you have the infrastructure for it:
The need to do so diminishes
You can just make it illegal to not carry a wifi-enabled ID (there’s the issue of having someone elses IDs, but so is there the issue of face-covering, and finding incentives to force people into else’scarrying only your own ID is easy)
The main issue with surveillance is the same AI vs automation issue.
Once the population is fine with being tracked 24⁄7 and you have the infrastructure for it:
The need to do so diminishes
You can just make it illegal to not carry a wifi-enabled ID (there’s the issue of having someone elses IDs, but so is there the issue of face-covering, and finding incentives to force people into else’scarrying only your own ID is easy)