Is Big Brother watching you shop?

老大哥在监视你购物吗?

Today in Focus

2026-05-13

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From supermarkets to corner shops, live facial recognition could be coming to retailers near you. Jessica Murray on the AI systems increasingly used by the police and stores. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • So it is the middle of the day around lunchtime to do my daily shop as I would normally do.

  • Anything that fits in a basket.

  • As far as I'm concerned, I don't need an awful lot of things.

  • I know what I need.

  • I'm in and out.

  • There was a couple of things that I was thinking of getting.

  • But as I entered the store, I noticed almost straight away that the security guard was following me.

  • So I'd gone down the second aisle and I noticed a lady and was sort of drawn to the fact that she was looking at me.

  • And three people surrounded me.

  • It looked like one of them was a security guard.

  • So at that point, I felt like I could confront him and ask him if he was following me.

  • And then briskly walked towards me.

  • I said, excuse me, do you mind just putting everything down and leaving the building now?

  • So I was really upset.