Case tracker · Biometric privacy & facial recognition
FTC v. Rite Aid Corporation
- AI system / company
- Rite Aid in-store facial-recognition 'AI watchlist' system
- Jurisdiction
- United States (federal)
- Court / regulator
- Federal Trade Commission / U.S. District Court, E.D. Pa.
- Status
- Regulatory action
What happened
The FTC alleged Rite Aid deployed facial recognition in hundreds of stores to flag suspected shoplifters without reasonable safeguards, generating thousands of false positives that led consumers to be wrongly surveilled, searched, ejected, or reported to police, with disproportionate false-positive rates in plurality-Black, Latino, and Asian communities. The 2023 settlement banned Rite Aid from using facial recognition for five years and required deletion of collected data and models.
About biometric privacy & facial recognition cases
Collection or use of faceprints and other biometric identifiers without consent (Illinois BIPA), and wrongful arrests from false facial-recognition matches.
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