The software company, Facewatch, deleted Mr Hadley’s image from its database after he had proven his identity to the company and the CCTV had been checked manually.<\/p>\n
Mr Hadley agreed the fraudster, who had been at the till at the same time he had been paying, “looked very similar” to him.<\/p>\n
“I get it was a human error and people make mistakes,” he said.<\/p>\n
“But, when those mistakes can result in people who have done nothing wrong being put on a national database, there needs to be some more checks and balances.”<\/p>\n
Madeleine Stone, from the civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch, said using software like Facewatch to deal with shoplifting was a “recipe for disaster”.<\/p>\n
“You could be blacklisted from your local shops, placed on a secret watchlist, and that information is shared in all the shops in your area,” she said.<\/p>\n
“There is not necessarily any evidence of wrongdoing and there is no due process.<\/p>\n
“Many people have been really impacted by this.”<\/p>\n
A Facewatch representative told Mr Hadley that avoiding wrongly including individuals on its database was “of the highest importance” to the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The software company, Facewatch, deleted Mr Hadley’s image from its database after he had proven his identity to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-355045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115051726256334701","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}