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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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