SurveillanceMedium
Calgary Malls Reportedly Deployed Facial Recognition Without Customer Consent
- Occurred
- Jun 1, 2018
- Published
- Jul 28, 2018
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Facial recognition (FRT) was reportedly deployed in some Calgary-area malls to approximate customer age and gender without explicit consent, which a privacy expert warned was a cause for concern.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- Cadillac Fairview
Harmed parties
- Market Mall goers
- Chinook Centre mall goers
- Privacy
- Biometric data subjects
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Deployment of facial recognition without consent fits surveillance category with medium severity due to privacy concerns.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8