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Reuters: Rite Aid monitored customers using facial recognition cameras
Over about eight years, the American drugstore chain Rite Aid Corp quietly added facial recognition systems to 200 stores across the United States, in one of the largest rollouts of such technology among retailers in the country, a Reuters investigation found.
In the hearts of New York and metro Los Angeles, Rite Aid deployed the technology in largely lower-income, non-white neighborhoods, according to a Reuters analysis. And for more than a year, the retailer used state-of-the-art facial recognition technology from a company with links to China and its authoritarian government.
In telephone and email exchanges with Reuters since February, Rite Aid confirmed the existence and breadth of its facial recognition program. The retailer defended the technology's use, saying it had nothing to do with race and was intended to deter theft and protect staff and customers from violence. Reuters found no evidence that Rite Aid's data was sent to China.
Last week, however, after Reuters sent its findings to the retailer, Rite Aid said it had quit using its facial recognition software. It later said all the cameras had been turned off.
It's a very long article:
Reuters pieced together how the company's initiative evolved, how the software has been used and how a recent vendor was linked to China, drawing on thousands of pages of internal documents from Rite Aid and its suppliers, as well as direct observations during store visits by Reuters journalists and interviews with more than 40 people familiar with the systems' deployment.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 29 2020, @10:14PM (5 children)
Yes, that goes around, and around. George Soros funds a lot of demonstrations. Periodically, an international union of service workers pickets Houston businesses. Kenny, the used-to-be journalist on the street for Walton and Johnson interviewed some of those people. Mostly out of town people who were paid to attend, and bussed in from someplace. Demonstrator's money wasn't directly traceable to Soros, but the checks had business names on them that were always funded by Soros.
I've always thought it a bit strange that none of these demonstrations seem to be traced to the Koch brothers - or, now, brother, singular. They have as much money to waste as Soros does, and they have their own political agendas which could be served by "grass roots protests".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2020, @01:51PM (1 child)
Citation needed.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 30 2020, @02:45PM
Citations are hard to come by. Credible citations are harder yet. I did mention in another discussion that the US government are masters at money laundering. Our federal agencies move money by the truckload into projects that were never authorized by government. Billionaires are also masters at laundering money. Money moves around the world by the trainload, and none of us peons has any idea what it's used for. You're aware that the big tech companies are laundering their money in various countries without taxes, to avoid being taxed in the US, UK, EU, etc.
Soros is a billionaire, and he moves money around. And, he doesn't like the idea that you or I might track his money.
You can start anywhere you like, trying to figure out if Soros funds demonstrations. Start here, if you like - https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jeff-reynolds/2020/06/03/yes-george-soros-sent-money-to-fund-the-riots-and-so-did-taxpayers-n487939 [pjmedia.com]
If you're afraid of rabbit holes, don't jump in.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2020, @01:57PM (2 children)
Not strange at all. Conservatives are educated, intelligent, refined, much better behaved. It's just not in their DNA to riot. Soros and his minions know this and know they can get away with funding and inciting rioting- it's expected behavior from the proletariat and lessers. It's all based on a legitimate problem of police brutality that has gone on far far too long. And now being used 100% politically- to make Trump look bad. And to do it during this horrible pandemic crisis? There aren't enough prisons to hold all of them long enough.
"Alt-right" are a completely different thing, and any idiot who lumps "alt-right" in with conservatives is, well, an idiot.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 30 2020, @02:52PM (1 child)
Let us not go too far overboard. How about we just stick to maybe "less gullible"? There is no huge divide in education, intelligence, or refinement between left leaning people, and right leaning people. I think I can give you the "better behaved" in most cases, but that isn't always true either. The left has a helluva lot of legitimate greivances in regards to right leaning conduct over the years. Who in hell dragged a man for miles behind a pickup truck, for no better reason than he was queer? Weren't no liberals involved!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2020, @04:41PM
All good points but you cite a single anomaly- that's not the norm, average, mean, whatever word the statisticians want to use. That guy was alt-right, and as I already wrote, they're not part of mainstream conservatives. For all I know they're likely Soros plants to make the conservatives look bad.
Big news about Soros-backed DAs and other operatives refusing to press charges against people who are on camera rioting and destroying property, attacking police, endangering others' lives and well-being.
I'm quite left-leaning, but will never condone violence.
USA is devolving into Civil War II.