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:
Come on people – we have been dealing with this for years – http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Invisible-Face-Mask-/
http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Invisible-Face-Mask-/
I stopped shopping at this$#%&!@*store long ago so I don’t give a$#%&!@*what they do.
Wal-mart is so afraid of being sued by the shoplifters for improper procedures that unless it is a really expensive item … they tell their “asset protection” people not to even bother. They make so much money that actually trying to stop shoplifting is not really worth it. The only reason they really have security in them at all is to ease the minds of the stockholders.
Larry Powell I don’t know about all Wal-Mart’s and I’ve worked in many of them but most have off duty cops working as loss prevention officers, I’ve seen them take down shoplifters and I’ve seen them just let them walk right out the door!
No more Walmart for me!
They can track me all they want. I don’t do$#%&!@*wrong so it doesn’t really matter.
Good nothing for honesty people to worry about
Hope this is not true. Maybe we should take some duct tape with us when we shop at Wallyworld.
I think this is a good idea