Facial Recognition in Rite Aid pharmacies

Facial Recognition in Rite Aid pharmacies
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Deployment Status	Stopped
Deployment Start Date
Deployment End Date
Events	* uses Record type Property:Has event End (20 July 2020, Documented, , No description)
City	Los Angeles, New York
Country	USA
Involved Entities
Keywords
Technology Deployed	FaceFirst, DeepCam
Information Certainty	Documented
Primary sources	1
Datasets Used	FaceFirst, DeepCam
Deployment Type	Criminal investigations, Surveillance
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managed by	Rite Aid
used by	Rite Aid
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Information Certainty: Documented

Deployment Purpose: Criminal investigations, Surveillance

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Products and Institutions:

Product Deployed	FaceFirst (Software) DeepCam (Software)
Institutions ⠉	FaceFirst DeepCam
Datasets	FaceFirst (Dataset) DeepCam (Dataset)
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Status and Events:

Status	Stopped
Events	End (20 July 2020, Documented, , No description)
Start Date
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Involved Entities
Managed by	Rite Aid
Used by	Rite Aid

Location:

City	Los Angeles (CA) New York (NY)
Country ⠉	USA

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Description

An investigation by Reuters found that Rite Aid installed and used facial recognition cameras in up to 200 US stores located in lower-income neighbourhoods in Los Angeles and Manhattan, NY. When approached by Reuters following the investigation, Rite Aid stated they had stopped using the systems.

The cameras matched facial images of customers entering a store to those of people Rite Aid previously observed engaging in potential criminal activity, causing an alert to be sent to security agents’ smartphones. Agents then reviewed the match for accuracy and could tell the customer to leave

Among the systems used by Rite Aid was one from DeepCam LLC, which worked with a firm in China whose largest outside investor is a Chinese government fund