A lot of people accept that which is beyond their control. That doesn't mean they are Ok with it, just that they don't know how to do anything about it or often that it's even happening.
Wasn't there an article about paying with your face around here just a bit ago? People clearly don't just tolerate this, but embrace it.
Only people from places where it's too late to go back (like China) are aware of the dangers of these systems, but they can hardly warn the rest of us and when they do, we generally don't listen as "something like that surely wouldn't happen in my free country".
It would seem that people only get slightly spooked when a government does something that could impact their privacy (even when it actually doesn't - see the recent covid tracking app backlash in basically every country) but when private companies do it, they eat it up hapily.
> Wasn't there an article about paying with your face around here just a bit ago?
There's not much risk to 'pay with your face' for Apple/Google/Samsung pay given it's all on-device biometrics that never leave the phone, but a similar situation is when Google paid $5 to people willing to submit their face to help with facial recognition training in the then-upcoming Pixel 4 phone.
It wasn't about that, it was about cameras and screens mounted on kiosks that you would just look at and make a hand gesture to pay. Not sure who was doing the processing, but it certainly wasn't anything the users owned/controlled.
