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:
Can’t match me. Lol
Walmart has always had cameras at the entrances long before these upgraded cameras
And people laugh at me because I don’t have a single picture of me on social media or the internet.
Me either
If they didn’t have cctv cameras at several stores along the Boston Marathon finish line…. we would haver NEVER caught the Tsarnaev brothers. If we didn’t have red-light cameras… I wouldn’t have had to choke up $250 for barely missing the light. The struggle is real people ! Lol !
I’d prefer to pay my ticket than not be able to catch thieves… or terrorists.
But, like Christopher Mcfadden said…. these systems are being marketed for profiting off our data and identification… security just being secondary !
Get used to it. Its only going to get worse.
Omg I just installed a camera at work today. The exact same one. The pink piece in the middle is foam to protect the lens. You need to take that out otherwise they aren’t going to see$#%&!@*
Your not afraid…yet
Close??
I just hope that they use good cameras!.. we keep seeing surveillance footage on the news of a wanted felon and the picture is so grainy it’s not even as good as a $30 cell phone camera?… what’s up with that?
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