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, and powered by Ryan Specialty, a global leader in insurance solutions, and Marsh McLennan, the world’s leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people.