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302 people died in tiger attacks in five years
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A total of 302 people died in tiger attacks in the country over the last five years with Maharashtra accounting for over 55 per cent of these deaths. The Centre has disbursed Rs 29.57 crore as compensation to the families of the victims. Uttar Pradesh reported 39 deaths due to tiger attacks in the last five years. In West Bengal,...
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Rite Aid Is Banned From Using Facial Recognition Tech After Wrongly Accusing Customers of
Rite Aid Is Banned , From Using Facial Recognition Tech , After Wrongly Accusing Customers of Shoplifting.
'The Guardian' reports that the Federal Trade
Commission has banned Rite Aid from using facial recognition technology for the next five years.
According to a new settlement, the pharmacy chain
used facial recognition systems to identify
shoppers deemed "likely to engage" in shoplifting. .
According to a new settlement, the pharmacy chain
used facial recognition systems to identify
shoppers deemed "likely to engage" in shoplifting. .
This was also done without customers' consent. .
The settlement shows that the system misidentified particularly Black,
Latino and Asian people, as well as women. .
The settlement shows that the system misidentified particularly Black,
Latino and Asian people, as well as women. .
Rite Aid employees would then
get alerts about the people it misidentified, , and those people would be increasingly surveilled,
banned from the store or accused of crimes.
The FTC accused Rite Aid of using its facial
recognition technology in hundreds of stores
between October of 2012 and July of 2020.
Cities that the facial recognition system was
used in include New York City, Los Angeles,
San Francisco, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Detroit.
Cities that the facial recognition system was
used in include New York City, Los Angeles,
San Francisco, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Detroit.
Civil liberty and digital rights group the Electronic
Privacy Information Center (Epic) accused Rite Aid
of failing to take even the most basic precautions.
Civil liberty and digital rights group the Electronic
Privacy Information Center (Epic) accused Rite Aid
of failing to take even the most basic precautions.
The result was sadly predictable:
thousands of misidentifications
that disproportionately affected
Black, Asian and Latino customers,
some of which led to humiliating
searches and store ejections, John Davisson, Epicโs director of litigation, via 'The Guardian'.
According to Rite Aid, the AI involved in the allegations
was part of a pilot program in a limited number of
stores and was taken out of use three years ago
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