Who is really watching? Retail giants and police say they're using AI to track down criminals

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Artificial intelligence is now part of everyday life in the modern world, even if we don't always know when and where.

Retailers have been experimenting with AI and facial recognition for a few years.But Mr Thompson says Auror worked differently.

"This is just the information that's already been captured for a crime event that's happened in a store." "The combinations of those things can be really important to someone. And yet retailers are using that kind of information all the time for different purposes, particularly for marketing. "This information that's being captured by retailers isn't new, but they're just making it much easier to identify the repeat people who are targeting them," Mr Thomson says.

 

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