Facial recognition in a time of feeble leadership

Asking a friend about his opinion of "facial recognition" he said he had it on his iPhone and that the concept, the phenomenon, didn't bother him because the whole notion of "privacy" no longer exists.

I would be all for "facial recognition" if it was this: that every citizen be required to make a self-portrait, a picture of their own image, beginning at age 18, and again every 4 years until one expired or was sentenced to death in a Christian Science rest home. I have no doubt that these self-rendered "recognitions" would help create the atmosphere of introspection citizens need to choose better leaders for their present and their future.

Our leadership currently lacks all charm: not only is it difficult if not impossible to find any redeeming qualities among the current crop (including, but not limited to, the USA, China, Russia) the lack of introspection these leaders display, the kind of self-seeing required of leadership in the past i.e. I (the leader) see myself in you (the people I lead), has, as far as the I can see, totally disappeared into the kind of synthetic leadership offered by Donald Trump, in which the people are seemingly willing to be led by a leader with whom in reality they have absolutly nothing in common, not knowing his true face, so that they are the ones serving him, or the overt totalitarianism offered by Putin in Russia or Xi in China.

If Trump or Xi or Putin, or Macron of France for that matter, were required to render a self-portrait every four years as their official 'facially recognized' identity, in whichever medium they chose, other than photography--pencil, oil, acrylics, or watercolor--what a different relationship citizens would have with their leaders and leaders with citizens.