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:
It might be of but in a day and age where the government wants to know your every move, who can trust it.
Yeah right. They got your tv, computer and cell phone for that. For that matter your car is the same way if it’s new.
Yeah right. They got your tv, computer and cell phone for that. For that matter your car is the same way if it’s new.
Paranoia has nothing to do with it. Read 1984.
Our walmart greeter already knows everybody
Don’t like? Don’t go in!
This is old news , they have had this technology and use for a while now at wal mart. Got to figure almost every person in the U.S has ben in a Wal Mart.
Face recognition is too expensive for Walmart, hell the local casinos don’t even have it.
I don’t shop at Walmart at all.
I will not ship there and be spied on.