Through a plan being considered by the National Shoplifting Prevention Organization (NSPO), stores may receive the facial data of shoplifting suspects captured on security cameras, The Japan Times reports. The nonprofit NSPO insists that “shoplifting is serious, and defenses are necessary.” However, the report states, many point to “privacy concerns by having sensitive personal information linked to criminal records.” Chuo University Associate Prof. Hiroshi Miyashita, a privacy expert, said, “We have to compare the target we want to achieve with the violation of rights required to achieve it … This method of preventing shoplifting is too much of a privacy risk.”
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