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Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts
The Home Depot customer says he noticed the camera at a recent trip to the store.
Earlier this month, Benjamin Jankowski, a frequent Home Depot shopper, filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the company. According to Jankowski, this system captures shoppers’ facial geometry and stores it, in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Federal regulators say Rite Aid activated the face-scanning technology to identify people captured by surveillance cameras, in hundreds of stores between 2012 and 2020, in hopes of cracking down on shoplifters and other “troublemakers.” But instead, Rite Aid’s facial recognition system collected and stored images of people without their knowledge and generated thousands of false positives.
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