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:
Smiles make this technology not work well
A young woman was kidnapped in a Walmart parking lot when she got into her car, and was found murdered. The videos were too grainy to see much, so I’m all for better video surveillance.
If you are guilty, they need to
Know.
If you are wanted for something, wife and children need to know what kind of idiot you are.
Another reason not to shop a Walmart.
Maybe pick out illegals!
The new land of the free
Facial recognition is a software program . The camera is a high megapixel IP camera. There is so much theft at retail stores , businesses are forced to do whatever they can for loss prevention. If the public as a whole doesn’t like this then stop stealing . As a tech who installs these camera systems I understand just how much money even a small retail store looses each year in theft. The “big brother watching as
This will probably end up in the hands of a group like the TSA.