Facial Recognition Systems in the US
A helpful summary of which US retail stores are using facial recognition, thinking about using it, or currently not planning on using it. (This, of course, can all change without notice.)
Three years ago, I wrote that campaigns to ban facial recognition are too narrow. The problem here is identification, correlation, and then discrimination. There’s no difference whether the identification technology is facial recognition, the MAC address of our phones, gait recognition, license plate recognition, or anything else. Facial recognition is just the easiest technology right now.
Jerry • January 3, 2024 7:54 AM
Many of the reasons given are red herrings. For many of the retailers that “might use”, click “learn more”, the reason given is “Privacy Policy does not mention in-store cameras”. For Best Buy, it mentions “measuring traffic patterns” which likely just means head/body count of a camera pointed at an entrance or exit, not facial recognition.