Fuck AI

In the Marvel Universe™ some things just "can" happen because Hollywood. Like when Ultron could see the whole internet, or like the "nexus" where the "whole world's internet runs through.

In this case, I believe Spidey tapped into the well-established stream of realtime unencrypted video feeds from private and public sources, and simply searched every single one in realtime and foundna match, using a program that had never even trained on faces at all.

In light of the far-fetched nature of all of it, I don't really draw lines between Flock/Axon, etc., and what happened in the film.

Flock is much, much worse. They store your shit and share access and search tools with the highest (and lowest) bidder. If anything, I prefer Spidey's approach better, as it seems limited to only the good guys in the movies, and only occasionally (Ultron, Vision if he was bad, probably more that I'm forgetting) used by bad guys.

That said, I can totally see why you would see it the way you describe. It's not pretty. All the crazy movies we watched growing up and now weren't supposed to be an instruction manual...