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:
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And yet another reason NOT to spend your money at Walmart.
I wish we would install these eye level cams at Lowes. Our theft is out of control and we are not even in a city. Theft rings are out of hand these days.
Theft rings have become a huge thing these daus.
Being atheist takes more faith than believing in a Creator.
Won’t bother me…… you’ll never SEE MY FACE at a walmart!
My wife works for Walmart. Those cameras have only ONE purpose. To identify shoplifters for prosecution. They rely on that picture in high def to give the police.
I hate Walmart even more!
Boycott this Monopoly of a business. Am I the only one that could see what happen when Walmart came into America? All the little mom-and-pop stores close and now you see empty businesses all around America and every car is filling up Walmart’s parking lot and the evil Waltons bank. http://dangerousminds.net/comments/wal-marts_walton_family_are_parasites_and_moral_pariahs_and_should_be_treat
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