FTC slams Rite Aid for misuse of facial recognition technology in stores

A landmark settlement over the pharmacy chain's use of the surveillance
technology could raise further doubts about facial recognition's use in
stores, airports and other venues

The FTC said huge errors were commonplace. Between December 2019 and July
2020, the system generated more than 2,000 *Match Alerts* for the same
person in faraway stores around the same time, even though the scenarios
were *impossible or implausible*, the FTC said.

In one case, Rite Aid's system generated more than 900 *match …

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