

as a very minimum, it would make sense to demand safe-deleting the photo immediately after the verification process, with fucking prison time to someone if it is found they did not comply with that.
but that is clearly not the direction the society is going 🤷♂️
it is your behaviour what defines you and if you lose the memories, it will affect the behaviour, so i am inclined to say yes, you are different person then.
it is similar to when you lose a loved one to a cult, be it maga or some religious cult. they are no longer the same person. you want to get back the person they were before, but right now, even if you kidnap them and lock them in your basement, they are not the same person.
or imagine some scifi future, where we have mastered the ability to transfer your consciousness into another body.
your spouse died, and they use their body as a vehicle for some other person, who suffered terrible accident, got hit by a train and only body part that survived was their head. after emergency surgery, their consciousness is now in your former spouse’s body. is that still your spouse? no, it is the other person.