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:
All these stupid comments just because they installed new camera s at eye level all retail establishments have them all banks have them so I guess no one will be banking anymore criminals are the only ones that need to worry about the cams
To bad the cops are to busy killing people for ABSOLUTELY no reason, last thing america needs is more of these low iq pigs that we refer to as cops.
Im guessing there a lot of shoplifters on this thread upset that walmart figured out that overhead cameras don’t produce the clearest of pictures. Im sure if they boycotted, walmart would consider the cameras as money well spent
It’s so easy to rile people up now a days. Everyone has conspiracy theories and what not. The cameras are ip cameras, which can be looked at from anywhere in the world with Internet access. The video is stored on a server at the location. If this is the only store you won’t go to because you’re on camera you might wanna actually look around at every business you go to, 9.9 out of 10 they have a cctv system of some sort. Also, if you think that a standard cctv system can’t be viewed from an outside sorce, you’re sorely mistaken. If it is hooked to a network that video can be seen from anywhere.
Funny, everyone wants to scream about invasion of privacy but when something bad happens everyone wants to see the video to find out who did what. Kudos to walmart for being proactive to protect their customers and employees.
So. GO WALMART, thanks for your help
Walmart supports african terrorists ! BOYCOTTED ! ! Nuff Said ! ! !
Interesting. Technology is not good or bad. It is what one does with the technology that is good or bad. It will be interesting to see how the information is used by Walmart and whether or not it is connected to “Big Brother.”
At eye level.. That means it can be vandalized – Attack the devices , make it to expensive of an action to continue.
They have been doing this for a long long time