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:
I couldn’t get through the video with that wannabe Captain Kirk narrative.
Facial recognition is why.
Ryan Palmer
Don’t go to Walmart. They bow ro Islamanyway.
Just walk over to it and start licking the globe….
I was a manager and worked with security teams who collected data and then processed the files for prosecution. Some theft is considered ‘petty’ and some is ‘organized crime’. They often let the organized crime people go to see who is connected across several stores in different cities and then bust the whole ring at once. This can often take several months. In the meantime it’s frustrating to watch the criminals walk out the door- but their day is coming…..
Good thing I don’t shop wally world.
The big silver boxes at intersections are for the traffic signals. If you look at the pavement, you’ll see the round, square or octagonal shaped cuts in the pavement where they insert the wires that detect the metal in cars that send the signal to the silver box and tells the traffic light to change. It has nothing to do with weight, it’s metal detection, just like the metal detectors used everywhere else.
We all need to put on burqas and head to mosques with our pirk sandwiches. . That would unnerve them. Show up speaking in a southsrn drawl..
Sad days when we’ve come to this