When you enter your local Walmart, keep an eye out for the visible part of the latest technology the retail chain has been installing near their doors and throughout the store.
Paging: George Orwell. Mr. Orwell, you there?
High-tech facial recognition cameras are installed eye level near the entry-ways of their new store fronts, but it’s the software behind these anonymous plastic half-globes that is raising concerns (see the video on the following page). Understand, that it isn’t about having anything to hide, these cameras set new a precedent for both personal and business use. These cameras are able to cross-reference your image with online social media networks to match a name with the face, they can learn a great deal more and may be able to track lot of data points. How much the system can record and track is unknown, but in the video on the next page you can see that it not only tracks faces, but can categorize objects and motion:
Cool but there is only one register open
you sound like you’re really paranoid to me. I could care less how many cameras are inside or outside of a store. I’m not doing anything wrong and if anyone else is not doing anything wrong they shouldn’t worry either big deal
I’m sure this company supports muslims and would never tread on their wishes. If not, then some$#%&!@*lawmaker will make allowances for the devil’s religion as they have been.
Our nearest Walmart can’t even keep the trash out of their parking lot
Big Brother?
The boxes are for collecting traffic patterns. Not for information about you. The weigh in motion are for collecting data usually anything over 10,000#. The data is transferred to the federal highway administration in Washington to help determine weights and speeds on certain roads. Useful in distributing federal funds for highways.
F**e news
Saw one yesterday.
Walmart is sick and tired of getting robbed. You should be, too. The money they lose on theft is passed along to the honest people by raising prices. Not just in Walmart, but in all stores. Are you stunned by how much cereal and toilet paper costs these days? Blame the thieves. You would be surprised at how much theft goes on in retail stores. And it’s the honest people who end up paying the price.
Whenever I shop ar a pet store I’d get catalogs in the mail. I shopped at a specialty wine store and got wine catalogs in the mail.
People this was back in the nineties.
Whenever I used my card it would generate more advertisement.
It’s for money.
Now it’s cameras.