Aldi supermarkets in London are already using cameras on self-checkout machines to scan a person’s face and, using AI, be able to tell if the person is old enough to buy alcohol. If the cameras think you’re under the age of 25 it will still call over an assistant to check your actual ID. One of the eceptionally weird things I read about in this story is that the machines will check your face for your age: “if the customer consents”. So you can tell it no and still show a real ID to a real person, but why would you even be going into the self-checkout with booze if you didn’t want to use the self-checkout machines? Its all weird and Skynet will soon launch the Terminators, I’m sure.
But one attorney says you should also be careful using self-checkouts because some companies are cracking down on shoplifters, and having people arrested for theft, even if the machine messed up and didn’t scan something properly and the person legitimately did nothing wrong.
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