The supermarket chain Wegmans is making headlines for testing facial recognition cameras in some of their stores "to help identify individuals who pose a risk to our people, customers, or operations." Is this practice an invasion of privacy? Some consumers are concerned about their stored facial scan being accessed if there is a hack or breach of data… How would you feel about shopping at a grocery store that uses facial recognition technology? Would that cause you to shop elsewhere? Prof. Erik Learned-Miller, Professor and Chair of the Faculty at the UMass Amherst Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences joined us to discuss this!

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