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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Haven’t been inside a walmart in a couple of years, hows things going in there. Yall doing okay?
1 in 5 chance this facial recognition software can mis-identify you…leading to false charges
It recommends tampons in your case
If used for protection that’s great. Just read our watch t.v and look how many criminals have been caught. By looking at there pictures of people whom have been seen if they use it to help find children that’s been kidnapped . That helps police alot . For any store to have cameras in it protects all of us. Shop lifters sure don’t like it for sure. Remember they must be used for the right thing.
Unfortunately this is going to be the new norm.. In fact it’s going to be more advanced and soon.. The good thing is criminals will be caught in a quicker fashion.. The bad thing is if your a little freaking in the bedroom or whatever, someone somewhere is going to know.. If you cheat on your spouse you’re going to get caught..
Who shops at Walmart these days? Kind of like maintaining a Myspace account, right? Time to move on…
Like traffic cameras. When you are in PUBLIC, you are subject to such intrusions. Best to not have so much social media trappings. Let others attract attention to themselves. ( says the guy who is regularly on Facebook!)
Problem is it won’t be used for good. Just another spy tool.
So I guess I’m going to start walking on my hands with my pants down when I go into walmart…