WF-54CSTG
Calgary Malls Deployed Facial Recognition without Customer Consent
Facial recognition (FRT) was reportedly deployed in some Calgary-area malls to approximate customer age and gender without explicit consent, which a privacy expert warned was a cause for concern.
- Date it happened
- 2018-06-01
- Organisation involved
- Cadillac Fairview
- Product, system or model
- The software was described to be able to approximate, for example, how many men in their 60s used the directory, but did not store images of their faces or collect any other biometric data. Cadillac F
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