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Big Brother checkouts could socially profile shoppers
Self-service checkouts which socially profile customers to learn whether they are likely to shoplift have been invented
Self-service checkouts in future may be secretly profiling shoppers to see if they are more likely to steal groceries Photo: Alamy
Big brother style self-service check-outs which socially profile customers to stop shoplifters are in development, it has emerged.
Symbol Technologies, the company which helped develop self-scan checkouts for Tesco and Asda, has lodged a patent for a programme which monitors a lot more than the shopping in your basket.
The technology takes into account whether the store is located in a bad area; the time of day; shopping history and queue length before determining if it is likely a shopper has stolen items.
It claims to ‘maximise the potential for catching pilferage.’
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/05/big-brother-checkouts-could-socially-profile-shoppers/
