Threat actor
Facewatch
Last fetched
Facewatch is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
Facewatch is a UK-based company that provides facial recognition technology for the retail industry. Their system alerts businesses in real-time when a "known offender" is detected. Images captured by CCTV are transmitted to Facewatch's cloud server, where they are converted into biometric measurements for comparison against a database of subjects of interest. Facewatch has faced multiple lawsuits over data protection breaches and grave instances of false identification. In addition to the UK, it is used by police and retailers in Brazil and Spain.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Facewatch in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Facewatch today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Facewatch has no infrastructure.
References
- https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/15/business/facewatch-ai-facial-recognition-tech
- https://www.biometricupdate.com/202405/facewatch-met-police-face-lawsuits-after-facial-recognition-misidentification
- https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/uk-supermarket-biometric-cameras/
- https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/my-mum-is-scared-to-go-shopping-alone-after-facial-recognition-wrongly-branded-her-a-shoplifter/
- https://www.wired.com/story/uk-stores-facial-recognition-track-shoppers/
- https://www.facewatch.co.uk/2020/01/06/facewatch-launches-in-spain-with-the-appointment-of-retail-technology-business-leader-sbt/
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Related pages
Pivot from Facewatch into its techniques, tactics and any attributed infrastructure.
Queries
Resolves the slug to this actor, merging every duplicate node sharing the same name.
MATCH (a:ACTOR)
WHERE a.name =~ $pattern OR any(x IN a.aliases WHERE x =~ $pattern)
RETURN a.id AS id, a.name AS name, a.aliases AS aliases, a.description AS description,
a.references AS references, a.campaigns AS campaigns
LIMIT 25Techniques this actor uses, grouped by the tactic each one serves.
MATCH (a:ACTOR {name: $name})-[:USES_TECHNIQUE]->(t:ATTACK_PATTERN)
OPTIONAL MATCH (t)-[:USES_TACTIC]->(tac:ATTACK_PATTERN)
RETURN t.id AS techniqueId, t.name AS techniqueName, tac.id AS tacticId, tac.name AS tacticName
LIMIT 1000Infrastructure publicly attributed to this actor.
MATCH (n)-[:ATTRIBUTED_TO]->(a:ACTOR {name: $name})
RETURN labels(n)[0] AS kind, n.name AS name
LIMIT 25Or query Whisper from your own LLM workflow via the Whisper MCP server.