Yes, transparency for all, and I mean all, is the only other way to balance the scales of power.
It's either privacy for everyone, or transparency for all, but this in between is the worst where some entities get leverage over others because they have access to information that others don't have about them.
Right, so then we'll just have balanced power between everyone who can afford the AWS or other compute service bill do to the facial recognition matches against all those millions (and later, hundreds of millions, then billions) of records. That'll be...
Oh. Hm.
Maybe "privacy for everyone" is a better point to aim for.
The alternative seems to be no privacy as a baseline and then still results in an everybody-loses arms race to top it off.
It's either privacy for everyone, or transparency for all, but this in between is the worst where some entities get leverage over others because they have access to information that others don't have about them.