{"id":10969,"date":"2023-07-29T16:37:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T14:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/29\/well-just-keep-an-eye-on-her-inside-britains-retail-centres-where-facial-recognition-cameras-now-spy-on-shoplifters\/"},"modified":"2023-07-29T16:37:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T14:37:36","slug":"well-just-keep-an-eye-on-her-inside-britains-retail-centres-where-facial-recognition-cameras-now-spy-on-shoplifters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/29\/well-just-keep-an-eye-on-her-inside-britains-retail-centres-where-facial-recognition-cameras-now-spy-on-shoplifters\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019ll just keep an eye on her\u2019: Inside Britain\u2019s retail centres where facial recognition cameras now spy on shoplifters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruxley Manor in south-east London is among the increasing numbers of retailers installing biometric security technology<\/p>\n<p>At 11.12am last Tuesday, a woman in her 70s sauntered through the main entrance of the Ruxley Manor garden centre in Sidcup, south-east London. Upstairs in its offices, the phone of director James Evans pinged.<\/p>\n<p>Facial recognition cameras had identified the pensioner as a potential criminal. Two weeks earlier, she had been caught stealing \u00a315 worth of toys for her granddaughter and her image uploaded on to a private watchlist of known shoplifters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/29\/well-just-keep-an-eye-on-her-inside-britains-retail-centres-where-facial-recognition-cameras-now-spy-on-shoplifters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3db4e2352f0c005d9cb730443a4f3d40a71f612d\/0_653_1512_907\/master\/1512.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8347561b43d3e1aafdd84bfe41df8935\" title=\"\u2018We\u2019ll just keep an eye on her\u2019: Inside Britain\u2019s retail centres where facial recognition cameras now spy on shoplifters\" \/>Ruxley Manor in south-east London is among the increasing numbers of retailers installing biometric security technology<br \/>\nAt 11.12am last Tuesday, a woman in her 70s sauntered through the main entrance of the Ruxley Manor garden centre in Sidcup, south-east London. Upstairs in its offices, the phone of director James Evans pinged.<br \/>\nFacial recognition cameras had identified the pensioner as a potential criminal. Two weeks earlier, she had been caught stealing \u00a315 worth of toys for her granddaughter and her image uploaded on to a private watchlist of known shoplifters. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruxley Manor in south-east London is among the increasing numbers of retailers installing biometric security technology At 11.12am last Tuesday, a woman in her 70s sauntered through the main entrance of the Ruxley Manor garden centre in Sidcup, south-east London. Upstairs in its offices, the phone of director James Evans pinged. Facial recognition cameras had &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/29\/well-just-keep-an-eye-on-her-inside-britains-retail-centres-where-facial-recognition-cameras-now-spy-on-shoplifters\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018We\u2019ll just keep an eye on her\u2019: Inside Britain\u2019s retail centres where facial recognition cameras now spy on shoplifters<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}