Research has shown repeatedly that face recognition technology is demonstrably racist.<br />According to Gizmodo, systems often have high error rates, particularly when trying to identify Black and other people of color--espeically women.<br />Nevertheless, that didn't stop drugstore chain Rite Aid from using it.<br />In an eight-year program, its system to scanned the faces of every single customer who walked into two hundred of its stores.<br />A disproportionate number of those stores were located in non-white, low-income neighborhoods.<br />The faces of everyone entering a store would be analyzed and added to a unique “profile,” though customers were unaware of its existence.
