For Eight Years, Rite Aid Collected Quite A Library Made Up Of Customers' Faces

For Eight Years, Rite Aid Collected Quite A Library Made Up Of Customers' Faces

Research has shown repeatedly that face recognition technology is demonstrably racist.

According to Gizmodo, systems often have high error rates, particularly when trying to identify Black and other people of color--espeically women.

Nevertheless, that didn't stop drugstore chain Rite Aid from using it.

In an eight-year program, its system to scanned the faces of every single customer who walked into two hundred of its stores.