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’s not the cameras. It’s the software. On average there are about 200 cameras per Super Center. They are used for evidence for shoplifting among other things. If a customer was assaulted in the parking lot, police can view the recording.
Big Brother for sure.
I dont shop at walmart and now heres a new reason
I’m not a criminal, but for God’s sake I’m tired of being spied on. The NSA, FBI, CIA is enough, all ready, now we have locals who want to look at you. This need to stop.
Not only is muslim not a race, it’s not an ethnicity, either.
The speaker in the video is hilarious. He’s freaking out because the camera gets its power over the ethernet, and incorrectly says that it doesn’t use a power source.
I’ve used power-over-ethernet devices before. They don’t draw their power from the 1’s and 0’s, the ethernet cable comes from a special adapter so you just have to run one line.
I also downloaded and read the flyer. Seems to be a camera more places would benefit from. How often do we see requests to identify someone, because the image is too blurry?
John Baker, next time I see one I will try to get a pic. I’m not sure what they are for but it’s small and solar powered and at the top of the pole there’s a metal tube like thing with a short antenna. I might be a plate reader… I just don’t know what they are or why they need to be on the highway. Could be nothing but it seems unnecessary to read everyone’s plates unless your goal is to monitor our movements
Travis Neil Cole Ellsworth
Kyre Searcher
ever heard of a database ???
Geeeez !
I hope Walmart wanted you to blow their cover.