Advertising? no.

Its the same as Christian Bale's Batman where he uses his surveillance tech to find the Joker.

Both instances are "a hero uses scary tech to try to help, but what does this mean for their morality?"

In Batman, Morgan Freeman's character quits because he feels Bruce is going too far.

In the new Spider-Man film there isnt anyone directly opposing Spider-Mans face recognition hack but the whole film frames Peter's misuse of tech, which is primarily highlighted during a conversation Peter has with Bruce Banner. It seems clear to me that this film is setting up a big conflict where Peter's tech will be used for significant harm.

So everyone saying that Spider-Man is now promoting Flock/Palantir/Surveillance seems to have quite literally missed the plot.

Remember when Alfred resigned cuz he was morally against that cellphone tracker thing that Batman used? We used to be a proper country.

This is what movies do. They convince us that some things are normal or constant. Themes, archetypes, etc, but also ideas about how the world actually works.

Look at any movie featuring the military in the last 30 years. They make 19-25 year olds seem like capable competent and well intentioned professionals. Nowhere do you see that 18 year old kid fresh out of boot not knowing his ass from his elbow, trying to joust a B1 stand.

It's all propaganda. It always has been.

Not too different from the PS4 Spiderman game police surveillance towers which he had access to

Very likely, they got access to an unlimited budget so they're using it to advertise in popular movies. Kinda like how car brands do the same thing.

He was listening to a police scanner app, there was also the spidey tracker app. Not sure what moment you are referring to specifically.

I don't go to the cinema nor do I subscribe to anything but dez nutzzzzzzz. Even before the child undresser slop machine was invented the quality of movies been on a steady decline. Short cuts dumb fucks... cgi childrens book for plebs ready to be rolled and smoked. Like the world they depict via the hollywood_child_sex_cartel is nothing like what actual ameriplebs experiance. Oh yeah.. in regaurds to the facial tracking..... This is called technogrooming via the marketurdz or predikkktive programming. They just running games we shrug our sholders and another breeder fool pops out another. Dear debt slave once you tune in... nothing really changes. It is all the same channel. I guess I Fell in Love Too Easily now I am negitive 😢