Shoppers warned as Aldi rival rolls out new face-scanning policy to compare against ‘watchlist’

through the software.

In 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) banned the now-bankrupt pharmacy retailer Rite Aid from using facial recognition technology for five years after finding that it repeatedly misidentified shoppers as shoplifters.

Earlier this year, Wegmans and other retailers in Erie County, New York, were even banned by law from utilizing continue reading …