Surveillance System Misidentifies Shoppers as “Persons of Interest”
Key Points:
– Rite Aid, a retail chain, deployed facial recognition systems without customer consent to identify shoppers likely to engage in shoplifting.
– The technology misidentified people, particularly women and Black, Latino, or Asian individuals, on multiple occasions.
– The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached a settlement with Rite Aid, forbidding the use of facial recognition technology in its stores for five years.
– Rite Aid used the facial recognition technology in hundreds of stores between 2012 and 2020.
Hot Takes:
Well, this is awkward! Rite Aid thought their surveillance system was helping them catch potential shoplifters, but it turns out it was misidentifying innocent customers. Talk about a major fail! It’s a good thing the FTC stepped in and put a stop to this facial recognition madness. Let’s hope Rite Aid learns its lesson and finds another way to prevent shoplifting that doesn’t infringe on people’s privacy or mistake them for criminals. Remember, looks can be deceiving, even for AI!
As part of this experiment I would like to give credit where credit is due. If you enjoy these, please take a moment to read the original article:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/20/rite-aid-shoplifting-facial-recognition-ftc-settlement
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