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Sinds begin jaren zeventig zien toeschouwers door tijdrekken elk WK minder voetbal. In Qatar keken ze gemiddeld bijna drie kwartier naar een bal die niet bewoog. Een tijdslimiet voor wissels, inworpen en doeltrappen moet dat vanaf nu tegengaan. Werkt het ook?
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De vijfjarige Jelle uit Velsen-Noord wil later wel een héél bijzonder beroep beoefenen. In tegenstelling tot leeftijdsgenoten ligt zijn passie niet bij de brandweer, politie of boerderij; maar bij systemic transformation alignment coaching. "Als ik later groot ben ga ik commmunicatietrainingen geven."
In het klaslokaal kijken klasgenoten gek op van Jelle, die met een clipboard en een wascokrijtje rond paradeert. "Ik speel in de pauze altijd HR-medewerkertje" zegt hij, en spreekt één van de andere kleuters aan op grensoverschrijdend gedrag. "Joëlle was eerst met die blokken aan het spelen Sjors." Hij krabbelt wat op het clipboard en loopt door. "Ik zou veel liever systemic transformation alignment coachje spelen, maar daar willen ze nooit aan meedoen."
Jelle's juf, Nina, weet niet wat ze met zijn eigenaardige droom aan moet. "Laatst vroeg Jelle of hij de leiding mag nemen in de vertelkring om te oefenen voor later. Toen ik hem vroeg wat hij dan precies wilde worden zei hij 'STA-coach'. Hij heeft daarna nog uitgelegd wat dat precies inhoudt, maar toen kwam er een heel lang en vaag verhaal. Iets met verandering binnen een systeem en dat je, eh, ja ik weet het echt niet." Ze komt iets dichterbij en fluistert. "Het klonk een beetje als een bullshitbaan, maar dat durfde ik hem niet te vertellen."
Van wie Jelle deze passie precies heeft gekregen is niet duidelijk, in ieder geval niet van zijn ouders. "Papa is profvoetballer en mama dolfijnentrainer, maar dat vind ik stom. Systemische opstellingen in organisaties, dat is pas cool."
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Facial recognition technology in U.K. shops "will soon alert police in real time to the presence of serious offenders," reports The Guardian, "with civil liberties groups warning of a 'dangerous escalation' towards surveillance and criminalisation in the retail sector."
Facewatch, a facial recognition system used by more than 100 businesses including Sainsbury's, B&M and Spar to monitor thieves, said it was launching a UK-first feature to "alert police instantly when the most serious offenders trigger a live facial recognition match". Facewatch's chief executive, Nick Fisher, said the "unique technical development" would be launched in autumn and would warn police in an average of four seconds when the "worst offenders" were flagged on its network... Charlie Whelton, the policy and campaigns officer at [civil liberties nonprofit] Liberty, said it was concerned about this "untested, opaque development" and the way facial recognition technology had been allowed to "proliferate without anything to govern it".
"It's not against the law to walk into a shop even if you've committed crimes in the past," he said. "The idea of calling the police on somebody who hasn't committed a crime, but there's a concern they might, is really upending the way we do things. And of course, it's not infallible. These systems do make mistakes, and it's very hard to argue with that when it happens to you." A number of people have been forced to leave shops after being falsely identified by Facewatch technology as a shoplifter, with some describing it as "Orwellian" and saying they felt as though they were "guilty until proven innocent"...
The use of the Facewatch technology looks set to quickly expand, with Sainsbury's recently announcing plans to increase its use from 55 stores to more than 200 by the end of the year. Facewatch said it alerted retailers almost 300,000 times that a "known repeat offender" had entered a store during the first six months of 2026, and that its system allowed staff to intervene "before theft, abuse or violence could occur or escalate"... [E]xperts argue the use of facial recognition technology in shops to catch shoplifters is disproportionate. Nuala Polo, the UK public policy lead at the Ada Lovelace Institute, which studies the impact of AI on society, said: "There are other, much less intrusive means that you can use to catch shoplifters where you don't need to be scanning millions of faces every day, virtually without consent...."
The campaign group Big Brother Watch has criticised police for "inserting themselves into this cowboy operation" and said people would be matched against "a secret blacklist compiled by unaccountable businesses and private security guards".
Facewatch, a facial recognition system used by more than 100 businesses including Sainsbury's, B&M and Spar to monitor thieves, said it was launching a UK-first feature to "alert police instantly when the most serious offenders trigger a live facial recognition match". Facewatch's chief executive, Nick Fisher, said the "unique technical development" would be launched in autumn and would warn police in an average of four seconds when the "worst offenders" were flagged on its network... Charlie Whelton, the policy and campaigns officer at [civil liberties nonprofit] Liberty, said it was concerned about this "untested, opaque development" and the way facial recognition technology had been allowed to "proliferate without anything to govern it".
"It's not against the law to walk into a shop even if you've committed crimes in the past," he said. "The idea of calling the police on somebody who hasn't committed a crime, but there's a concern they might, is really upending the way we do things. And of course, it's not infallible. These systems do make mistakes, and it's very hard to argue with that when it happens to you." A number of people have been forced to leave shops after being falsely identified by Facewatch technology as a shoplifter, with some describing it as "Orwellian" and saying they felt as though they were "guilty until proven innocent"...
The use of the Facewatch technology looks set to quickly expand, with Sainsbury's recently announcing plans to increase its use from 55 stores to more than 200 by the end of the year. Facewatch said it alerted retailers almost 300,000 times that a "known repeat offender" had entered a store during the first six months of 2026, and that its system allowed staff to intervene "before theft, abuse or violence could occur or escalate"... [E]xperts argue the use of facial recognition technology in shops to catch shoplifters is disproportionate. Nuala Polo, the UK public policy lead at the Ada Lovelace Institute, which studies the impact of AI on society, said: "There are other, much less intrusive means that you can use to catch shoplifters where you don't need to be scanning millions of faces every day, virtually without consent...."
The campaign group Big Brother Watch has criticised police for "inserting themselves into this cowboy operation" and said people would be matched against "a secret blacklist compiled by unaccountable businesses and private security guards".
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