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:
More and more of our privacy erodes with each passing day.
Professional theft costs retail stores millions. If they can identify a criminal then a security team can conduct surveillance and prevent theft. It benefits everyone as losses impact prices overall.
Wal-Mart has people to watch cameras ( 40plus cameras). If Wal-Mart prosecutes a shoplifter they have an eyewitness. They don’t need cops to go through cameras. There must be a different reason the cops in your area hate Wal-Mart, criminal activity maybe.
They have cameras inside & outside the store, this is just a step up in technology.
Apparently they don’t want to pay secret shoppers for just walking around and trying to catch shoplifters that way they don’t have to pay these people they got cameras to watch four thieves
I don’t shop at China’s outlet stores
There will be no embarrassing revelations about how many times I have been to Walmart because I just don’ t and won’t go there.
If you have nothing to hide there should be no problem
I live in Cocoa Florida. The store on 524 is constantly being ripped off
Yikes