Pensioner kicked out of shop after facial recognition technology wrongly identified him as a thief leaving him 'helpless'

A 67 year old grandfather was forced to leave his local Home Bargains after facial recognition cameras mistakenly flagged him as a shoplifter. Ian Clayton from Chester described feeling "helpless" when staff asked him to exit the store, having been wrongly connected to a theft he had no involvement in. "I thought I was going to be sick," he said, recalling the incident where he was flagged by the Facewatch operated software. "That feeling didn t go away all day, and it didn t go away the next

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Pensioner kicked out of shop after facial recognition technology wrongly identified him as a thief leaving him 'helpless'

A 67 year old grandfather was forced to leave his local Home Bargains after facial recognition cameras mistakenly flagged him as a shoplifter. Ian Clayton from Chester described feeling "helpless" when staff asked him to exit the store, having been wrongly connected to a theft he had no involvement in. "I thought I was going to be sick," he said, recalling the incident where he was flagged by the Facewatch operated software. "That feeling didn t go away all day, and it didn t go away the next

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