City Council proposal would ban facial-recognition technology, making it impossible for supermarkets to use it to combat shoplifting.

via NYPOST: Big Apple grocers who have been using facial-recognition technology to battle a citywide shoplifting epidemic are fuming over a City Council proposal that would ban the software — just as shopkeepers say it is beginning to prove effective. The proposed bill — which follows the city’s feud with Madison Square Garden owner James …

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