UK supermarket uses facial recognition tech to track shoppers

Attached to the ceiling above the gray shiny floor, watching as people enter the store, is a camera. The device scans faces, matching them against a corporate database of suspicious, potentially criminal shoppers who have been placed on a watchlist

The cameras are in breach of data rights and individual privacy

Every time a customer walks into a shop or business that uses Facewatch’s system, a biometric profile is created

Facewatch also adds to their watchlist subjects of interest posted on police websites

If staff have reasonable grounds to suspect a customer of committing a crime, whether it’s shoplifting or disorderly conduct, they can add the customer to a Facewatch list of “subjects of interest.” Facewatch’s policy notice says that the police also have the power to upload images and data to Facewatch’s system.

https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/uk-supermarket-biometric-cameras/

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