BBC – Sainsbury’s pause live facial recognition in one shop following an error

Big Brother Watch Team / August 17, 2026

Sainsbury’s is pausing the use of live facial recognition in its Dulwich shop after an innocent man was wrongly flagged as a shoplifter.

Silkie Carlo said Sainsbury’s is “treating customers like criminals” and that “serious mistakes like this are inevitable when a national retailer does hundreds of thousands of ID checks indiscriminately with this sinister surveillance tech…”

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