“Rite Aid will be prohibited from using facial recognition technology for surveillance purposes for five years”
From 2012 to 2020 Rite Aid ran facial recognition on its shoppers and built a watchlist from tens of thousands of low-quality security camera stills. The system generated thousands of false matches and hit stores in plurality-Black and Asian communities hardest. Rite Aid was already under a 2010 FTC data security order and broke that too. Eight years of tagging innocent customers as shoplifters buys a five-year timeout.