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Facewatch is the next generation in retail crime prevention. Using facial recognition technology to identify undesirable customers in real-time, Facewatch gives retailers the upper hand in crime prevention by identifying previous offenders at the door and alerting local subscribers that a ‘person of interest’ is operating in the area.
Overview
Location
United Kingdom, England, Westminster
Employees
11-50
Founded date
2010
Mentions in press and media 7
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| May 29, 2024 | Facial Recognition Still Struggles To Recognize Faces As More People Are Misidentified As Criminals | We’ve long been critics of facial recognition tech here at Techdirt. Even though the steady march of technology inevitably means the tech will get faster and better, the problem is the first part: faster. The tech has proven to be very fall... |
| Jul 26, 2022 | Southern Co-op Faces Legal Challenge Over “Orwellian” Facial Recognition Tech | A privacy rights group has filed a complaint with the ICO amid claims that Southern Co-op’s use of live facial recognition cameras is “unlawful”. The legal complaint from Big Brother Watch argues that Southern Co-op’s use of biometric techn... |
| Feb 2, 2022 | Major Supermarket Chains to Use Cameras That Can Guess Age of Alcohol Buyers | Thea Felicity, Tech Times 02 February 2022, 10:02 am (Photo : @atoms / Unsplash) Age-verification is becoming handy these days, and this time, major supermarket chains are beginning to see it as an advantage for easier self-checkouts when b... |
| Sep 7, 2020 | Face masks and facial recognition will both be the norm in the future: But how will they co-exist? | Mask rules have been scrapped in Victoria from this Friday, and in Queensland from March 4. It’s surprising how quickly public opinion can change. Winding the clocks back 12 months, many of us would have looked at a masked individual in pub... |
| Dec 17, 2015 | Pre-crime arrives in the UK with a crowdsourced watch list | Minority Report / 20th Century Fox reader comments 173 with 126 posters participating, including story author Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit As you may know, we're big fans of CCTV in the UK. At the last... |
| Jun 28, 2012 | London Police Want To Crowdsource Guilt-Free Surveillance | One of the earliest proposals for mass surveillance was the Panopticon: |
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FAQ about Facewatch
When was Facewatch founded?
Facewatch was founded in 2010.
What has the press written about Facewatch?
Parsers VC has collected 7 articles mentioning Facewatch, among them “Facial Recognition Still Struggles To Recognize Faces As More People Are Misidentified As Criminals” (May 29, 2024) and “Southern Co-op Faces Legal Challenge Over “Orwellian” Facial Recognition Tech” (Jul 26, 2022).
Is Facewatch still active?
Yes, Facewatch is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 7, 2026.