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   Evan Greer (evangreer@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 11:49:17 JST Evan Greer

   • Drew Harwell

   I spoke to @drewharwell at the Washington Post about the FTC slamming Rite Aid for using facial recognition on shoppers without their knowledge or consent.

   “stop using discriminatory and invasive facial recognition now, or get ready to pay the price.”
   https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/19/ftc-rite-aid-facial-recognition/

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     Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 11:49:49 JST Joe Ortiz

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     • Drew Harwell
     • AI6YR Ben
     • mybarkingdogs

     @ai6yr @mybarkingdogs @evangreer @drewharwell Here's the Reuters investigation from 2020 that got the ball rolling: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-riteaid-software/

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     mybarkingdogs@mastodon.sdf.org's status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 11:49:50 JST mybarkingdogs

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     • Drew Harwell
     • AI6YR Ben

     @ai6yr @evangreer @drewharwell HOLY SHIT THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO ME IN 2016

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 11:49:50 JST AI6YR Ben

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     • mybarkingdogs

     @mybarkingdogs @evangreer @drewharwell That really sucks...

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 11:49:51 JST AI6YR Ben

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     • Drew Harwell

     @evangreer @drewharwell Egad...

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     Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 11:50:18 JST Joe Ortiz

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     • Drew Harwell
     • AI6YR Ben
     • mybarkingdogs

     @mybarkingdogs @ai6yr @evangreer @drewharwell You should read the Reuters investigation that got it rolling... https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-riteaid-software/

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     mybarkingdogs@mastodon.sdf.org's status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 11:50:19 JST mybarkingdogs

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     • Drew Harwell
     • AI6YR Ben

     @ai6yr @evangreer @drewharwell Sadly true, and my situation was more just mild inconvenience and WTF than anything BIPOC have to deal with, with the actual risk of death they face as opposed to just a risk of argument

     Although that's one reason stuff like this (and I have quite a few stories) gets to me even now that I don't *intentionally* try to stand out with my looks so much - that it happens to people who are just trying to live and go about their lives

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     mybarkingdogs@mastodon.sdf.org's status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 11:50:19 JST mybarkingdogs

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     • AI6YR Ben

     @ai6yr @evangreer @drewharwell and it's one reason why I hope this case gets facial recognition AI stopped, at least to a degree. No one should have to face *anything* just on the basis of an error or unfounded suspicion - not embarrassment, not a police encounter, not nothing

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     mybarkingdogs@mastodon.sdf.org's status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 11:50:20 JST mybarkingdogs

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     • AI6YR Ben

     @ai6yr @evangreer @drewharwell it just seemed weird, and at the time I thought they mistook me for someone else or were going off my looks (lots of people did, I had a punkish visual-kei look at the time and I can't even *tell* you how many stores thought I was there to carry off the whole place in my pockets) but... wow, this makes sense :(

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 11:50:20 JST AI6YR Ben

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     • mybarkingdogs

     @mybarkingdogs @evangreer @drewharwell That said, I think there ARE some folks who get profiled as shoplifters all the time (due to race, etc.).

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     mybarkingdogs@mastodon.sdf.org's status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 11:50:21 JST mybarkingdogs

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     • AI6YR Ben

     @ai6yr @evangreer @drewharwell I think it was around 2016-2017 anyway. Not sure the exact day, but I remember the Rite Aid. It was the one near UCLA. I walked in to buy a pack of cigarettes (I smoked back then) and some shampoo - and the employees started hassling me for stealing a foot egg (never mind I wouldn't have, that shit is scammy, give me a pumice stone or ordinary foot rasp)

     I told them I didn't do it, completed my purchase, and they seemed to back off about it