As retailers turn to biometrics to reduce theft, costs of poor implementation loom

Demand for biometrics to reduce retail crime continues to rise, but the risk of flawed deployments of the technology are also seen in an unfortunate incident and an allegation of mass privacy violations.

The British Retail Consortium is urging authorities to allocate more resources to reducing retail theft as part of its Get Tough on Retail Crime” campaign, Retail Week reports. It is not just theft that the BRC is concerned about, noting that abuse and violence against retail staff …

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