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’s a freaking standard outdoor camera.
People really should not shop at Walmart
I hope it can be hooked to the police for finding thugs…now that would be a plus…convenience stores, liquor stores, etc. If it were constantly monotoring, with immediate matches, our cops would be running full speed.
To bad the FED doesn’t use this to catch Illegal aliens, they all shop at Walmart with OUR TAX dollars….
Nwo “commissaries”.
It’s easy to avoid these, just don’t shop the stores that have them.
So everybody should just drop their pants and show them your butt. That’ll show them
YEP! I’m waiting for the thugs to paint them black?
Your supposed to take the foam out! Lol
They’ve had cameras in the door frames for years, nothing new here.
Should severly limit serial shoplifters, saving us all monry. If you really don’t like WALMART, you don’t
need another reason not to shop there.