Facial recognition in Apple Stores
Information Certainty: Rumoured
Deployment Purpose: Commercial Surveillance
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Products and Institutions:
| Product Deployed | Unknown Products 0032 |
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| Institutions ⠉ | Unknown Products 0032 |
| Datasets | Unknown Dataset 0076 |
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Status and Events:
| Status | Ongoing |
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Users:
| Involved Entities | NYPD |
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| Managed by | Apple Security Industry Specialists |
| Used by | Apple Security Industry Specialists |
Location:
| City | Cupertino |
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| Country ⠉ | USA |
Description[ ]
A man was wrongfully arrested following his trip to an Apple store. Detectives suggest facial recognition was used by the store or its security provider, SIS solutions.
According to the lawsuit, NYPD detective John Reinhold first noticed that Bah “looked nothing like” the suspect in the surveillance video of a Manhattan Apple Store that was robbed. According to the lawsuit, the detective then explained that Apple’s security technology identifies suspects of theft using facial recognition technology. When we reached Reinhold on the phone for comment, he agreed that Apple doesn’t technically have facial recognition in its stores, but also that his statements as described in the lawsuit were correct. He declined to answer further questions, but it’s worth noting that the second defendant on the lawsuit, Security Industry Specialists, might explain the contradiction — it could have been that company which used facial recognition to analyze security footage after the fact, and possibly outside of Apple’s facilities 1
References
- a b "Apple claims it isn’t scanning customers’ faces, after teen sues for $1 billion". (2018) <https://www.theverge.com/tech/2019/4/23/18512942/apple-lawsuit-facial-recognition-nypd-1-billion-theft> Accessed: 2022-06-29