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Re:Facewatch 'thief recognition' CCTV on trial in UK stores by PeterisP on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @02:50PM (#10746774)
Previous conviction record is not one of so-called protected characteristics (gender/race/religion/etc), it is completely legal to discriminate based on that.

Basic human rights include a lot of things, but the list of those does not include a right to be trusted despite your prior actions, and it does not include a right to be served in particular location - those are privileges or interpersonal relationships that may be granted or withheld as the others believe is best for them.

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Re:Facewatch 'thief recognition' CCTV on trial in UK stores by DanBC on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @02:52PM (#10746788)
> it is completely legal to discriminate based on that.

Unless you're breaking the rehabilitation of offenders law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehabilitation_of_Offenders_Ac...

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Re:Facewatch 'thief recognition' CCTV on trial in UK stores by PeterisP on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @03:00PM (#10746862)
Yes, most jurisdictions have some kind of expiry for criminal record.

However, for good reasons, this doesn't happen automagically at the end of a prison sentence, it requires much more time than that and many thieves (the profession having a high rate of re-offending) spend most of their out-of-prison lives without this expiry/rehabilitation occurring.

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