Rite Aid has agreed to a five-year ban from using facial recognition technology after the Federal Trade Commission found that the chain falsely accused customers of crimes and unfairly targeted people of color.
Rite Aid said in a statement that it’s “pleased to reach an agreement” with the FTC but added that “we fundamentally disagree with the facial recognition allegations in the agency’s complaint.” The tech was a pilot program and was only used in a “limited number of stores. The test stopped more than three years ago before the FTC’s investigation began.
Ah yes, we quit breaking the law before you found out so would like to retain the ability to do it again in the future.
All of this should be illegal, everywhere, by any entity, forever.
Ah yes, we quit breaking the law before you found out so would like to retain the ability to do it again in the future.
All of this should be illegal, everywhere, by any entity, forever.