Apple can keep all the surveillance footage from all their stores. Apple can run FaceID on any image they have. In this instance, Apple must have run FaceID f

Apple can keep all the surveillance footage from all their stores. Apple can run FaceID on any image they have. In this instance, Apple must have run FaceID from images from the recordings that show the thefts. It is not necessary that they did this on-site or in real time. A statement by Apple claims that they do not run facial recognition software in their stores. But the wording was very specific; they did not deny uploading the in-store video to an offsite server to detect faces and identify them. They certainly did it for one person. They could do it for more, limited only by their computing power. And they are a computing hardware company.