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Rite Aid’s Secret Facial Recognition System Is the Tip of the Iceberg

A stunning report on the company’s secret facial recognition program shows that banning government use of the technology isn’t enough

Dave Gershgorn
OneZero
Published in
3 min readJul 31, 2020

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Purple-filtered image of the inside of a pharmacy store. There is a TV with surviellance footage in the middle.
Photo illustration; Image source: Richard Levine/Getty Images

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Dave Gershgorn
OneZero

Written by Dave Gershgorn

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Senior Writer at OneZero covering surveillance, facial recognition, DIY tech, and artificial intelligence. Previously: Qz, PopSci, and NYTimes.

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