#facewatch — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #facewatch, aggregated by home.social.
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"Asked to leave shop due to #FaceWatch software"
"So I went to my local #HomeBargins with my young daughter and was promptly asked to leave due to being flagged up by the facial recognition".
"No reason given".
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1stqsnl/asked_to_leave_shop_due_to_facewatch_software/
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Scheinbar gibt‘s das schon länger, war mir in dem Ausmaß aber nicht bekannt.
Das ist ja gelebte #orwell‘sche #Dystopie.#FaceWatch @Verfassungklage https://troet.cafe/@Verfassungklage/114693711344438821
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#Facewatch is being rolled out across UK
Email the Data Protection Officer [email protected].
Provide Id: You must include a clear photograph of your face and a copy of your ID (e.g., passport or driving license). Facewatch requires this to match your face against their database.
Specify Your Request: State clearly that you are requesting all personal data held about you, including any facial recognition images, incident reports, or "Subject of Interest" alerts
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Wegen #Gesichtserkennung des #Ladens verwiesen.
In #Großbritannien hat eine Software zur Verhinderung von #Ladendiebstahl gleich zweimal zum #Rauswurf einer #Kundin geführt.
Eine #Kundin der #britischen #Discounterkette Home Bargains wurde am 24. Mai und am 4. Juni 2025 in zwei verschiedenen Märkten dazu aufgefordert, diese zu verlassen. Wie die BBC berichtet, hatte die in den Läden installierte automatische Gesichtserkennung die Frau auf einer Liste...
https://www.golem.de/news/facewatch-wegen-gesichtserkennung-des-ladens-verwiesen-2506-197163.html
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"Her picture had somehow been circulated to local stores alerting them that they should not allow her entry. Ms Horan said she checked her bank account to confirm she had indeed paid for the items before #Facewatch eventually responded to say a review of the incident showed she had not stolen anything." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdr510p7kymo
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"Her picture had somehow been circulated to local stores alerting them that they should not allow her entry. Ms Horan said she checked her bank account to confirm she had indeed paid for the items before #Facewatch eventually responded to say a review of the incident showed she had not stolen anything." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdr510p7kymo
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#FacialRecognition Error Sees Woman Wrongly Accused of Theft-Slashdot
#HomeBargains installed facial recognition software to spot returning shoplifters. … "Facewatch" made a mistake
"We acknowledge & understand how distressing this experience must have been," an anon #Facewatch spokesperson
A woman was accused by a store manager of stealing about £10 worth of items. And then it happened again at another store when she was shopping with her 81-year-old mother
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👉 Wednesday: A UK woman was mistakenly flagged as a shoplifter by biometric facial recognition system #Facewatch and is now banned from all stores using the platform's technology to prevent theft.
What are your thoughts on shops implemeting biometric facial recognition systems?
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Plötzlich Hausverbot: #Gesichtserkennung erklärte Unschuldige zur Diebin
"Eine Fehlerkennung des Systems #Facewatch sorgte für ein unerfreuliches Erlebnis und zeigt die Risiken von blindem Vertrauen in #Überwachungstechnologie auf"
#TeamDatenschutz
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000221810/ploetzlich-hausverbot-gesichtserkennung-erklaerte-unschuldige-zur-diebin -
Wenn Menschen #KI blind vertrauen sind es ungebildete Menschen und sie können großen #Schaden anrichten:
In UK wurde eine Kundin fälschlicherweise von dem #Gesichtserkennungssystem #Facewatch als #Ladendiebin identifiziert und aus einem Geschäft verwiesen. Trotz der späteren Entschuldigung von Facewatch bleibt die Sorge um #Datenschutz und #Fehlidentifikationen bestehen.
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#FacialRecognition in the #UK is used by #Budgens, #SportsDirect, #Costcutter, #HomeBargains and the #Police.
Home Bargains uses a system called #Facewatch.
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-69055945#Coop records not only video but also voice. Source: I saw a sign in a shop, I think it was in Wick in northern Scotland.
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#FacialRecognition in the #UK is used by #Budgens, #SportsDirect, #Costcutter, #HomeBargains and the #Police.
Home Bargains uses a system called #Facewatch.
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-69055945#Coop records not only video but also voice. Source: I saw a sign in a shop, I think it was in Wick in northern Scotland.
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Ex-Commissioner For #FacialRecognition Tech Joins #Facewatch Firm He Approved - Slashdot
… #watchdog in charge of monitoring facial recognition technology in #UK has joined the private firm he approved, paving the way for the mass roll-out of #biometric #surveillance cameras in high streets across the country.
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UK Home Office Threatened UK Privacy Regulator To Help Privatized Facial Recognition... Particularly In Retail
#facialrecognition #biometrics #News #UnitedKingdom #Surveillance #MassSurveillance #retail #databrokers #wearamask #privacy #facewatch
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#UK #FacialRecognition #PoliceState #Facewatch #Biometrics #Privacy #Surveillance: "Senior officials at the Home Office secretly lobbied the UK’s independent privacy regulator to act “favourably” towards a private firm keen to roll out controversial facial recognition technology across the country, according to internal government emails seen by the Observer.
Correspondence reveals that the Home Office wrote to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) warning that policing minister, Chris Philp, would “write to your commissioner” if the regulator’s investigation into Facewatch – whose facial recognition cameras have provoked huge opposition after being installed in shops – was not positive towards the firm.
An official from the Home Office’s data and identity directorate warned the ICO: “If you are about to do something imminently in Facewatch’s favour then I should be able to head that off [Philp’s intervention], otherwise we will just have to let it take its course.”
The apparent threat came two days after a closed-door meeting on 8 March between Philp, senior Home Office officials and Facewatch."
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Home Office ‘agreed to lobby for facial recognition use to cut shop crime’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/facial-recognition-home-office-lobbying-crime-b2384310.html#FacialRecognition
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#Police
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Should #UK Stores Use #FacialRecognition Tech to Fight Shoplifting? - Slashdot
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Facial Recognition Spreads as Tool to Fight Shoplifting - British merchants are increasingly using the technology to combat shoplifting, raising qu... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/technology/facial-recognition-shoplifters-britain.html #supermarketsandgrocerystores #facialrecognitionsoftware #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #shoppingandretail #computervision #greatbritain #facewatch #privacy #cameras #face
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«Every time a customer walks into a shop or business that uses Facewatch’s system, a #Biometric profile is created [..] can add the customer to a Facewatch list of “subjects of interest.” #Facewatch’s policy notice says that the police also have the power to upload images and data to Facewatch’s system [..] lack transparency about how they process people’s data»
https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/uk-supermarket-biometric-cameras/
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> Was wohl Migros, Coop, SBB, et al. mit den Daten ihrer Videokameras anstellen?