Others already commented similar reactions: You're attitude is rather strict. I certainly sympathize with your stance here, understand in parts why you'd do that, but .. aren't you looking at the wrong part of the problem?
Family and friends taking pictures (and potentially spreading them) is one thing, but I guess you do fly or buy your groceries somewhere while a camera is watching. In other words: Why this rather strict policy with family and friends, if you cannot help being 'remembered' anywhere you go in public?
Aren't family and friends asking the same question? What do you answer?
Friends & family members don't ask any questions which is why I posted "people are quite compliant of that request". Yes, there's plenty of CCTV footage of me, I suppose the difference is there's no connection. Footage isn't tagged and is really only kept for security purposes; if something happens in the area. Of course, if facial recognition were implemented in CCTV, that would be a different matter all together.
It just feels like we're heading towards 1984. The way we use technology is changing. Prior to the internet, I'd have little reason to complain about photography. It's only with the advent of tagging on Facebook that I have become a lot more strict.
Family and friends taking pictures (and potentially spreading them) is one thing, but I guess you do fly or buy your groceries somewhere while a camera is watching. In other words: Why this rather strict policy with family and friends, if you cannot help being 'remembered' anywhere you go in public?
Aren't family and friends asking the same question? What do you answer?