IP: Big Borders bookshop is watching you

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
> To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Subject: Big Borders bookshop is watching you
>
>
> Big Borders bookshop is watching you
>
> High-tech surveillance ... the kind used to catch terrorists will be spying
> on shoppers
> By Jenifer Johnston
> The Sunday Herald
>
> IT'S supposed to be the sedate home of book lovers, coffee drinkers and the
> chattering classes, but Borders, the high street bookseller, has been
> attacked by human rights organisations for using high-tech surveillance
> equipment to spy on their customers.
>
> The company is to become the first retailer in the world to introduce a
> controversial security scheme, normally used to trap football hooligans,
> paedophiles and terrorists, to photograph customers as they enter stores.
>
> SmartFace -- known as FaceIt in the USA -- keeps a database of 'unique
> digital face-maps' that will check customers' pictures against those of
> known shoplifters.
>
> --SNIP--
>
> http://www.sundayherald.com/18007
>
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