Rite Aid deployed facial recognition cameras with help from Chinese Communist Party.

[WVUPharm2007]

Special Report: Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores

Over about eight years, the American drugstore chain Rite Aid Corp <RAD.N> quietly added facial recognition systems to 200 stores across the United States, in one of the largest rollouts of such technology among retailers in the country, a Reuters investigation found.

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In the hearts of New York and metro Los Angeles, Rite Aid deployed the technology in largely lower-income, non-white neighbourhoods, according to a Reuters analysis. And for more than a year, the retailer used state-of-the-art facial recognition technology from a company with links to China and its authoritarian government.

God damn I love the year 2020. It is so bonkers. Truly the dream of a student of absurdism.

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[JustFillIt]

Well I’ll be darned....

 

[Sine Cura]

These things won't work anyway in 2020 with widespread mask usage

High-theft stores have their hands full with shoplifters and aggressive whackjobs so unreliable facial recognition would be a hindrance