Posted on 03/19/2023 2:46:57 PM PDT by Twotone
An Upper West Side supermarket is using facial recognition technology to bust thieves as a wave of shoplifting slams the city — but some customers say it’s an invasion of privacy akin to “Big Brother.”
Fairway on Broadway and West 74th Street is collecting customers’ personal information — such as eye scans and voice prints — in an effort to stop the scourge of shoplifters wreaking havoc on the market, according to the firm.
“This technology is helping our stores reduce retail crime, an industry-wide challenge that has increased dramatically over the last few years,” the firm said in a statement.
“We have found that this technology — used thoughtfully and in combination with other measures we take to reduce theft — is helping prevent more crime in store.”
The store hung a small sign on its front entrance alerting customers that it “collects, retains, converts, stores or shares” customers’ “biometric information” in an effort to stop repeat crooks.
But some shoppers called the controversial technology unsettling.
“It’s a little creepy,” said Shawn Adams, a 37-year-old who was shopping at the store on Thursday. “It’s an invasion of privacy.”
Claudia, a retired teacher from the Upper West Side, worried what would happen to her personal data once it was collected.
“I don’t like it. I just don’t like Big Brother watching what I’m doing,” she said. “I don’t like people to take my information.”
Andrea S., a 74-year-old psychotherapist, added, “I think it’s horrible. I don’t want anyone to use my face.”
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UNLESS you are doing ALL your purchases in cash-—
They already know who you are by your credit card or discount card.
But some shoppers called the controversial technology unsettling.
Choices. But sad we have to use this technology. Do the pros outweigh the cons?
This is old school, the clerks in my youth used biometrics to identify the kids shoplifting. Was in a different database. Worked then and should work now.
We were always in someone’s database.
In recent months, Madison Square Garden CEO James Dolan has come under fire for his use of facial recognition technology to ban lawyers involved in suing his firm from entering the world-famous arena.
Lawyers in some of those cases have also called use of their likenesses a privacy invasion.
NYC prosecutors release the perps anyway. What difference does it make?
Guess who will be the first to complain about a "food desert" when the store completely shuts down due to "inventory shrinkage" and "underperformance"?
Remember the system that identified several members of Congress including many in the Black Caucus as criminals on the run? Even if they were it was embarrassing to the system vendor.
In a test the ACLU recently conducted of the facial recognition tool, called “Rekognition,” the software incorrectly matched 28 members of Congress, identifying them as other people who have been arrested for a crime.
ACLU website, July 26, 2018.
The members of Congress who were falsely matched with the mugshot database we used in the test include Republicans and Democrats, men and women, and legislators of all ages, from all across the country.
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Sounds like a great system.
Tie the facial recognition technology in with Whole Foods total basket scan tech and charge the shoppers’ EBT state food charge card/credit card, based on facial recognition.
Nobody has a gun aimed at the shoppers’ heads and forcing them to shop in NYC’s Fairway supermarket.
How many unauthorized photos are taken of any bank customer inside the bank doing business or outside at their ATMs.
Who will be back in the store in the afternoon to do the same thing
The New World Order and the Mark of the anti-Christ Beast.
They’re coming.
There will be no place to hide.
Thieves and Criminals are helping to make it happen by relentless crime
Coming up: Digital Currency - at first national in multiple nations and the a Global Digital Currency (my guess)
Then, if a person needs food and doesn’t want to land in the Lake of Fire, then the WEF/NWO will kill them.
But there’s still hope in all of that: Revelation chapter 20 verse 4.
All those people who are complaining should thank their lucky stars that Fairway is doing this. It’s a great store, and why should people be allowed to steal? It will only raise prices.
I once saw a well-dressed woman in Fairway with a baby in an expensive baby carriage get stopped for putting groceries on the shelf under the carriage and trying to walk out with them. She was probably trying to say she forgot about them. It’s not just the poor who try to get away with things.
Manhattan is a very Demonic stronghold.
The shopkeepers are allowed to keep people out of the store.
I expected the NYC elite would charge shopkeepers with discrimination for selectively prohibiting thugs from entering their stores.
Shirley, this is supercalifraginistic volume 11 racist
If an Upper West Side supermarket has access to facial recognition software, why didn’t Tucker Carlson get it for his expose?
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