Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores

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ON CAMERA: DeepCam, a facial recognition system deployed by pharmacy chain Rite Aid, captured this footage of a Reuters photographer at a store in New York in November. After Reuters informed Rite Aid of this article's findings, the company said it had ended the surveillance program.

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By JEFFREY DASTIN in LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK CITY Filed July 28, 2020, 11 a.m. GMT

In the hearts of New York and metro Los Angeles, Rite Aid installed facial recognition technology in largely lower-income, non-white neighborhoods, Reuters found. Among the technology the U.S. retailer used: a state-of-the-art system from a company with links to China and its authoritarian government.

Over about eight years, the American drugstore chain Rite Aid Corp quietly added facial recognition systems to 200 stores across the United States, in one of the largest rollouts of such technology among retailers in the country, a Reuters investigation found.

In the hearts of New York and metro Los Angeles, Rite Aid deployed the technology in largely lower-income, non-white neighborhoods, according to a Reuters analysis. And for more than a year, the retailer used state-of-the-art facial recognition technology from a company with links to China and its authoritarian government.

Of course, the company makes an official statement that it does not monitor anything that everyone knows "is not true".