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In 2012, Target operated a "couple of forensics labs" and at least 23 "investigations centers" for surveillance. OP's article kinda sugarcoats it. Since it's been verified Home Depot does checkout facial recognition and builds profiles, silly to think most any other major retailer wouldn't.

https://privacysos.org/blog/target-is-really-really-into-sur...

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AI will probably automate this.

I predict a new class of machine learning model that will ingest a large number of low resolution video frames and dump high resolution facial reconstructions.

This stuff will probably be sold to both private and public sectors.

Democratising the Mission Impossible fake face technique.

Ironically, probably helping minorities at the same time.

https://www.theverge.com/21298762/face-depixelizer-ai-machin...

Probably not in Illinois!

https://www.aclu-il.org/en/campaigns/biometric-information-p...

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