SurveillanceMedium
Facial Recognition Trial by UK Southern Co-op Alleged as Unlawful
- Occurred
- Jul 26, 2022
- Published
- Sep 13, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Southern Co-op's use of facial recognition reportedly to curb violent crime in UK supermarkets was alleged by civil society and privacy groups as "unlawful" and "complete" invasion of privacy.
Developers
- Hikvision
Deployers
- Southern Co-op
Harmed parties
- Souther Co-op customers
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves facial recognition deployment in public spaces with privacy allegations, fitting surveillance category with medium severity due to controversy without confirmed legal penalties.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8