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:
Wal mart is already on my ban list
For you flash mob idiots
good for them
Hope it helps innocent ppl from getting Robbed in the Parking lot. Like my Friend got Car Jacked.
They do own their own stores, and they have been hit by several flash mobs attacks in the last year if I recall, not counting all the shoplifters they have to deal with, not letting them totally off the hook however
Angela your friend should’ve had mace or a teaser to protect themselves
I don’t shop there anymore haven’t in over a year and if I have to go to one for some reason I will be sure to put on a mask
i dont shop there!
No longer shop at Walmart.
I don’t go to Walmart!!!