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Is facial recognition good enough for shops to use it?
A Sainbury's store in south London has paused its use of facial recognition software after a customer was wrongly challenged as a shoplifter and asked to leave.
But is the UK ready to embrace this technology used in this way?
Today's Emma Barnett talks to Silkie Carlo from the civil liberties group Big Brother Watch, and the British Independent Retailers Association chief Andrew Goodacre.
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