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In a complaint filed in federal court, the FTC argued that Rite Aid used AI-based facial recognition tools to identify customers who may have engaged in shoplifting or other problematic behavior. The agency said that Rite Aid failed to put in place safeguards to protect employees who were falsely accused of wrongdoing because the facial recognition technology mistakenly flagged them as matching someone previously identified as a shoplifter or other troublemaker.

The FTC said the facial recognition system "generated thousands of false-positive matches" and that it "sometimes matched customers with people who had originally been enrolled in the database based on activity thousands of miles away, or flagged the same person at dozens of different stores" all across the country.

It added that Rite Aid’s technology was also more likely to generate false positives at stores located in plurality-Black and Asian communities, used low-quality images that made false positives more likely and failed to both adequately train employees on the technology and regularly monitor its accuracy.

RITE AID CLOSING 154 STORES IN 15 STATES: HERE’S THE LIST

The Biden administration panders to the corrupt Black criminal class by once again allowing criminals to prevail over merchants.

In the vernacular........ Kissing Black Ass

Facial recognition tech has been widely used across the US government for years, a new report shows

The agencies used facial recognition software from May to August of last year “to support criminal investigations related to civil unrest, riots, or protests,” according to a report released on Tuesday by the US Government Accountability Office, based on a survey of 42 federal agencies. The US Postal Inspection Service, for instance, told the GAO that it used software from Clearview AI, a controversial facial-recognition system, to help track down people suspected of crimes, such as stealing and opening mail and stealing from Postal Service buildings.

There are currently no federal laws governing the application of such technology, though some states and local governments have set their own rules limiting how it can be rolled out and legislation related to the technology has been introduced in Congress.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/30/tech/government-facial-recognition-use-gao-report/index.html

Rite Aid was hammered for millions and millions on the mostly bogus opioid claim.

But they are allowed to do nothing to mitigate any loss, including fake repeat customers attempting to purchase hard drugs.

Such a deal.

Facial recognition use by private companies to combat crime and theft inside their corporate owned buildings is completely unacceptable.

Government use of facial recognition to target conservatives, patriots and other political undesirables is fine though.