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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Us bans pharmacy rite aid from facial recognition use - Caught on Camera

Rite Aid has been ordered to stop using facial recognition for the next five years after finding the technology falsely identified some consumers as shoplifters (Credit: AFP)

Pharmacy group Rite Aid was ordered Tuesday to stop using facial recognition for the next five years by a US regulator, which said the company falsely identified consumers as shoplifters using the technology.

The case touches on one of the main concerns about the proliferation of artificial intelligence, and facial recognition in particular, which is deemed to potentially misidentify or discriminate against individuals, especially non-whites and women.

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