You are increasingly being watched by facial recognition cameras as you go about your daily life ... whether it's shopping at a drug store or passing through the airport or a train station.

? But what if that software wasn't always accurate ... and in fact is turning out to be pretty poor at actually recognizing faces?

Rite Aid has been aggressively using facial recognition cameras to try to stop chronic shoplifting.  But today they were ordered by the Federal Trade Commission to stop using that software for at least five years...

Albert Fox Cahn is executive director of the advocacy group Surveillance Technology Oversight Project.

You are increasingly being watched by facial recognition cameras as you go about your daily life ... whether it's shopping at a drug store or passing through the airport or a train station.
? But what if that software wasn't always accurate ... and in fact is turning out to be pretty poor at actually recognizing faces?
Rite Aid has been aggressively using facial recognition cameras to try to stop chronic shoplifting.  But today they were ordered by the Federal Trade Commission to stop using that software for at least five years...
Albert Fox Cahn is executive director of the advocacy group Surveillance Technology Oversight Project.

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