
What's In A Face
TED Radio Hour
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FaceWatch
The main reason retailers want to use facial recognition in their shops is to actually look for unwanted individuals. Parmie Olson: A chain of stores in the UK hired a security system, a facial recognition security system to be installed. The staff member there told me that his phone gets pinged up to ten times a day with an alert to say that someone has walked in the store who matches the watch list.
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