{"id":23057,"date":"2026-05-13T07:37:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/is-big-brother-watching-you-shop-podcast\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:37:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:37:51","slug":"is-big-brother-watching-you-shop-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/is-big-brother-watching-you-shop-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Big Brother watching you shop? \u2013 podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From supermarkets to corner shops, live facial recognition could be coming to retailers near you. <strong>Jessica Murray <\/strong>on the AI systems increasingly used by the police and stores<\/p>\n<p>Live facial recognition is being hailed as a powerful new frontier in the fight against crime, not only by police but by private companies too. Retailers from supermarkets to corner shops hope it will help them fight back against shoplifting.<\/p>\n<p>But the Guardian\u2019s social affairs correspondent, <strong>Jessica Murray<\/strong>, points out that it will also expand surveillance into more and more public spaces. And the technology doesn\u2019t always get it right.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/audio\/2026\/may\/13\/is-big-brother-watching-you-shop-podcast\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1a32405b13ca651c4c2b3d751d4d939efa1af880\/789_0_5600_4480\/master\/5600.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=36064983b2ac06639b2a204567fe5186\" title=\"Is Big Brother watching you shop? \u2013 podcast\" \/>From supermarkets to corner shops, live facial recognition could be coming to retailers near you. Jessica Murray on the AI systems increasingly used by the police and stores<br \/>\nLive facial recognition is being hailed as a powerful new frontier in the fight against crime, not only by police but by private companies too. Retailers from supermarkets to corner shops hope it will help them fight back against shoplifting.<br \/>\nBut the Guardian\u2019s social affairs correspondent, Jessica Murray, points out that it will also expand surveillance into more and more public spaces. And the technology doesn\u2019t always get it right. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From supermarkets to corner shops, live facial recognition could be coming to retailers near you. Jessica Murray on the AI systems increasingly used by the police and stores Live facial recognition is being hailed as a powerful new frontier in the fight against crime, not only by police but by private companies too. Retailers from &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/is-big-brother-watching-you-shop-podcast\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Big Brother watching you shop? \u2013 podcast<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23058,"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\/23057"}],"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=23057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}