“While San Francisco banned the police from using facial recognition back in 2019 and the EU called for a five year ban on the technology last year, several major retailers in the US including Lowe’s, Albertsons and Macy’s have been using it for both fraud and theft detection.”
Four in ten shoppers had no idea the store was scanning their faces. San Francisco banned its police from doing this. Nobody banned Macy’s. The retailer gets the surveillance the police were denied, and the shopper never gets asked.