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• When the system detected a match, it would flag store employees to closely watch the shopper.But the database included low-resolution images taken from grainy surveillance cameras and cellphones, undermining the quality of the matches, the FTC said..
• Though roughly 80 percent of Rite Aid’s stores are in “plurality-White” areas, the FTC found that most of the stores that used the facial recognition program were located in “plurality non-White areas.”The false accusations led many shoppers to feel as if they had been racially profiled..
• Those firms were not identified.The FTC said huge errors were commonplace..