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:
WHY THE HELL DO THEY NEED TO RECONIZE (SP) MY FACE??? WON’T SHOP IN ONE THAT HAS THIS CAMERA. BTW..ARE THEY POSTING A NOTICE THAT IT IS A CAMERA?
If they monitored the cameras, they could catch 80% of the thefts…
Can of spray paint works wonders!
SO WHAT ???
I won’t shop where there is one either.
This is kinda old news. They have alot better ones now that install directly into the door frame which are much smaller and in some cases, hidden.
Old news or not this guy is a moron. The camera does not do what he says it does. The software is not in the camera, but in a computer. As for why wal mart would spend this kinda of money for this software is beyond me. Any security camera system needs to be monitored. If this is true maybe to spot criminals, pedifiles. Big f#*king deal cameras are evey where.
Poor thing. Got something hide.
Tracking the Charmin squeezers?
F**K WAL-MART! MOST OF THEIR$#%&!@*IS MADE FROM SLAVES