The New York Times tells the story of Simon Mackenzie, a security officer at a U.K. discount store uploading security camera footage of shoplifters into a facial recognition program called Facewatch. "The next time those people enter any shop within a few miles that uses Facewatch, store staff will receive an alert. "Facewatch — now in nearly 400 stores across Britain — licenses facial recognition software made by Real Networks and Amazon. "Every time Facewatch's system identifies a shoplifter, a notification goes to a person who passed a test to be a ' super recognizer ' — someone with a special talent for remembering faces. Within seconds, the super recognizer must confirm the match against the Facewatch database before an alert is sent.

Source: The Guardian July 02, 2023 16:43 UTC