Australian Retailers Reportedly Captured Face Prints of Their Customers without Consent
May 13, 2022
Major Australian retailers reportedly analyzed in-store footage to capture facial features of their customers without consent, which was criticized by consumer groups as creepy and invasive.
- Alleged deployer
- the-good-guys, kmart, bunnings
- Alleged developer
- unknown
- Alleged harmed parties
- the-good-guys-customers, kmart-customers, bunnings-customers
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/258
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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