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:
It is business and patrons security. Don’t like it…don’t shop there.
I need me one of those cameras
So does every other store or buisness. Stop falling for the b******t.
Think about msqrd and snap chat type apps there close enough to scan your iris heck every app wants permission to your gallery and camera, mic, location. Amazon already stores all the data for the cia in there cloud, we have facebook and then there’s google that tracks everything you do. There is nothing we can do we are already plugged in
It’s just a frigging camera used to bust the frigging idiots who rob or vandalize the store! They need better cameras period!
Cool. Walmart makes smart decisions that’s why they are such a success.
Smash those camera’s, too invasive. Wal-Mart sucks always!
Yep we have them. Going through a remodel and they installed them
John Harness, no one has a right to disregard a stores rules. If it says your face must be visible when entering the store than you do it or shop somewhere else.
Old news been done at lots of banks, stores, and schooo