Third‑party Facial‑AI Circumvents Vendor Bans

Vendors that refuse to add facial recognition can be effectively bypassed when third parties offer tools that export or ingest footage from municipal camera systems to run identity, demographic, or behavioral analytics. That creates a two‑tier surveillance ecosystem where local promises not to deploy face ID mean little if integrators will do it for police or private buyers. — This matters because limits on facial recognition (corporate or legal) can be hollowed out by ecosystem partners, shifting the policy debate from single vendors to the whole supply chain and export controls.