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Rite Aid Facial Recognition Disproportionately Misidentified Minority Shoppers as Shoplifters
Rite Aid used facial recognition technology from October 2012 to July 2020, allegedly leading to disproportionate misidentifications of women, Black, Latino, and Asian shoppers as "likely" shoplifters. The FTC settlement prohibits Rite Aid from using this technology in stores for five years.
- Date it happened
- 2023-12-20
- Organisation involved
- Rite Aid
- Product, system or model
- Rite Aid supervised the creation of a "watchlist database" of images of people the company claimed had engaged in actual or attempted criminal activity at one of its stores. These entries included "fi
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