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.