Protecting Retail — Without Mass Surveillance

Organized Retail Crime (ORC) costs retailers billions annually through theft, fraud, and organized shoplifting rings. Biometrica helps protect:

Stores

Malls

Warehouses

Distribution Centers

Employees

Customers

— all without mass surveillance or invasive biometric practices.

Common Retail Challenges

• Increasing rates of ORC and organized shoplifting
• Repeat offenders targeting multiple locations
• Internal theft and supply chain vulnerabilities
• Customer and employee safety
• Maintaining compliance with privacy laws
• Understaffed loss prevention teams

How Biometrica Helps

• Detect known ORC actors and repeat offenders within 30–60 seconds
• Protect warehouses, storage yards, and distribution centers
• Enforce banned and trespassed lists across retail locations
• Allow retailers to upload facility-specific datasets of legally trespassed persons
• Vet delivery drivers, contractors, and warehouse staff using eMotive
• Alert for human trafficking victims or missing persons without surveilling everyone
• Apply strict Client-Decided Relevance Filtering to prevent bias in decision-making

Privacy & Data Integrity

Biometrica:

• Does not access, store, transmit, or retain biometric data or biometric identifiers
• Does not access faceprints — all comparisons occur via a third-party, NIST-approved provider in a secured black box environment
• Does not conduct mass surveillance
• Does not maintain biometric galleries or libraries

All matching is real-time, with human verification and immediate data deletion after processing.

UMbRA and Facility-Specific Lists

• UMbRA is a 100% law enforcement-sourced database.
• Retailers and facility owners may additionally maintain their own legally compliant datasets (e.g., trespassed or banned individuals).
• These datasets run as a separate list, ensuring control stays with the facility while upholding privacy safeguards.

Benefits for Retailers

• Reduce ORC-driven losses
• Enhance safety for employees and customers
• Enhance existing CCTV and make it more targeted instead of doing mass capture of everyone who walks through a property, without adding surveillance overhead
• Support liability reduction and qualify for insurance discounts
• Stay fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA, AI Act, and U.S. privacy laws

Insurance Incentives

Institutions using Biometrica may qualify for:

• Insurance premium reductions and risk reclassification for improved insurance positioning through our Insurance Reduction & Risk Management Program, in partnership with PointZero Risk Intelligence.

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