Facial Recognition Trial by UK Southern Co-op Alleged as Unlawful
July 26, 2022
Southern Co-op's use of facial recognition reportedly to curb violent crime in UK supermarkets was alleged by civil society and privacy groups as "unlawful" and "complete" invasion of privacy.
- Alleged deployer
- southern-co-op
- Alleged developer
- hikvision
- Alleged harmed parties
- souther-co-op-customers
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/391
Data source
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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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