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The number plate-spotting company at the heart of a Court of Appeal challenge is now offering facial recognition inside shops.
At stores that sign up to use Auror's new system, everyone who enters will have a temporary biometric template made of them.
The system would check the template against the store's own list of risky people, via facial recognition software provided by a third undisclosed company.
If no match is found, the template is immediately dumped, according to Auror's website, about the new Subject Recognition system.
"It cannot in any way be used for profiling, prediction, tracking, monitoring behavior or targeted marketing purposes," it said.
Auror already has automated number-plate recognition (ANPR) technology widely spread across
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