Brit supermarket giant triples down on facial recog to nab shoplifters

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ungreased0675•about 4 hours ago

The people building this stuff need to think through what they’re doing.

Imagine this is wildly successful and most stores adopt it. Does someone with shoplifting on their record get banned from buying groceries everywhere? What if the government provides a list of undesirables to exclude from society?

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Please don’t create the Torment Nexus.

NoPicklez•about 4 hours ago

Is the alternative to then let goods be stolen, have shops lock products away and consume police resources trying to track people down that they have average footage of?

We can think worst case scenario for everything and not doing anything, or be realistic.

devilbunny•about 4 hours ago

I, for one, don’t care if thieves are excluded from stores. They can buy and get curbside delivery in the parking lot, and if that is a little more expensive than shopping for yourself, well, you’ve made everyone else’s groceries just that little bit more expensive for years while getting them for yourself for free.

baggy_trough•about 4 hours ago

Right now shoplifters have the advantage. That has many negative effects (stores closing, merchandise being locked up). It's not the Torment Nexus to make life more difficult for them.

Brit supermarket giant triples down on facial recog to nab shoplifters

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