Comment by nortlov

3 days ago

Surely archived footage would be ripe for automated analysis once the tools are commercialized.

Yes, in the same way stored passwords of today may eventually be broken by the quantum computing tools of tomorrow.

The post I replied to implied that gait analysis is a viable alternative option. Gait analysis is not an option today, or this year, or even in the next decade. There is no data supporting the claim that it can be done reliably enough to get down to practical reidentification use cases.