AI enforcement · Federal Trade Commission

Rite Aid agrees to settle FTC charges

Rite Aid · settlement proposed · what the party did with AI. The newest step in this record is dated 19 Dec 2023.

The agency’s words

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Party
Rite Aid will be prohibited from using facial recognition technology for surveillance purposes for five years — Rite Aid Banned from Using AI Facial Recognition After FTC Says Retailer Deployed Technology without Reasonable Safeguards
AI
Rite Aid deployed artificial intelligence-based facial recognition technology in order to identify customers who may have been engaged in shoplifting — Rite Aid Banned from Using AI Facial Recognition After FTC Says Retailer Deployed Technology without Reasonable Safeguards
Alleged
The FTC says: the retailer failed to implement reasonable procedures and prevent harm to consumers in its use of facial recognition technology in hundreds of stores — Rite Aid Banned from Using AI Facial Recognition After FTC Says Retailer Deployed Technology without Reasonable Safeguards
Docket
The release names no docket number.

Every step

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  1. 19 Dec 2023 Rite Aid agrees to settle FTC charges · settlement proposed Rite Aid will be prohibited from using facial recognition technology for surveillance purposes for five years to settle Federal Trade Commission charges — Rite Aid Banned from Using AI Facial Recognition After FTC Says Retailer Deployed Technology without Reasonable Safeguards; date from the release’s date line, “December 19, 2023 Tags:”

Cite this action

jesseahawkins.com, “Rite Aid: FTC action that names AI”, AI enforcement record, release read 3 Nov 2026. https://jesseahawkins.com/rules/enforcement/ftc-rite-aid/