This isn't about face recognition technology, it's about face recognition data. The EFF and friends want to come up with standards for storing, securing and sharing face-recognition data between companies and government entities. These standards make sense—and need some minimum level of scrutiny—regardless of how easy facial recognition technology is to implement.

Writing software that parses Social Security numbers into lists is even easier than face recognition, and yet we still want standards around handling the information!

Okay, that was a slightly facetious example, but the point stands: it's a question of securing data, not technology.