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US bans pharmacy Rite Aid from facial recognition use

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US bans pharmacy Rite Aid from facial recognition use

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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.

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Good. Now they need to start enforcing bans on corporate facial recognition technology use everywhere.

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