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:
Total BS
Expound please. I didn’t state any opinion except perhaps that if they don’t like something, people can do something else.
Expound please. I didn’t state any opinion except perhaps that if they don’t like something, people can do something else.
These cameras are collecting facial recognition data and that has a very controversial and sketchy court record, which is why they have to label it a certain way.
These cameras have also found thousands of missing people also.
Doesn’t work on a Burka.
Another reason not to shop WalNut World!
You’ve got no reasonable expectation of privacy on someone else’s private property or on a public street, whether you like cameras or not, get used to the idea because everybody’s going to be wearing cameras soon enough
Marcos Liberatore
Whose eye level?