The Russian experience is relevant because telecom companies (ie Rostelecom that I was affiliated with) refused to share the burden and thus through leaks and press statements there are valid open source figures regarding costs. Rostech (and to lesser extend some parties in the FSB) wet dreams did not come true.
Currently it is very expensive to conduct total live facial recognition, even for the CIA/NSA/GCHQ. Outsourcing that to non state entity is even harder in the west than it is in Russia, because as a rule the western domestic IT giants are not state owned and transfering such sensitive task would both invalidate any secrecy measures and endanger personal data (in the sense that those companies sell it).
The only way to do it that I see is to make street wide facial recognition comercial, for example by subsidising enhanced reality set ups or something and then piggyback it.
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Grumpy as always.
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