Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there’s always something waiting, and even if it’s bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can’t stop living.
Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example.
It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set.
Stopping bad things is a significant public service.