Comment by gruez
5 months ago
>Paid by cash? It can still be tracked to you. For "fraud prevention", of course.
They can already track you through your phone and/or credit cards. Why bother setting up a massive facial recognition system for people paying with cash when they only account for 10% (or whatever) of overall shoppers, and have less disposable income than average?
I don’t know about the US but in the UK they did it ostensibly to catch shoplifters.
We have a major problem with “professional” thieves stealing because the big chains don’t want to pay cashiers anymore.
You see a screen with your face on it in places like Waitrose self service checkouts now. It’s their way of saying “we know who you are”.
Tracking cash purchases is just a side bonus for them.
idk why, but they do
Got a source on retailers actively doing this?
Its very well known that Target, Wallgreens use facial recognition for shoplifting.
Its harder to prove any specific stores are using any specific survailence product for marketing, but plenty of companies are offering it. Here' Samsung's take: https://web.archive.org/web/20230410052807/https://www.samsu...
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Word of mouth: retailers in China have been using face recognition technologies to identify key customers so that they can be greater by name when delivered their favorite drink upon entering the premises.
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https://www.facewatch.co.uk/
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