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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Ted Hennessey

Sainsbury’s shopper wrongly misidentified by staff says he felt like ‘criminal’

A data strategist who was told to leave Sainsbury’s after staff mistook him for an offender flagged by facial recognition software has said he was made to feel like a “criminal”.

Warren Rajah, 42, from Elephant and Castle, south London, says he was in his local store on January 27 when staff approached him, asked him to leave and took his shopping.

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