HOMELAND SECURITY WORRIES COVID-19 MASKS ARE BREAKING FACIAL RECOGNITION, LEAKED DOCUMENT SHOWS
Discouraging mask-wearing also will reduce population, which would make surveillance an easier job. Heh.
It would be better if they just focused on identifying fishy people, rather than trying to connect anyone they can identify with something fishy.
I see this as related to the report of federal agents pulling protestors off the streets in Portland, Oregon.