Facial Recognition In Retail Stores: Are Shoppers Ready For It?

Retail stores are planning opt-in facial recognition in return for giving you shopping rewards. Thus, your biometric data as well as your buying history will be available for sale to the highest bidder. When combined with data from other stores, the data-hungry Technocrats will know more about you than you know about yourself. ⁃ TN EditorThe global market for retail biometrics is by all accounts in its early stages, and is significantly fragmented between regions. Retailers in Asia are tes