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:
Certainly don’t want to offend any Muslims….
They’ll not see my face. I’ve been boycotting that Chinese Junk Shop for years….guess this is one more reason to detest this store.
I dont want that intrusion into my ..self. its an invasion if my private life. I want to go shop and never be “recognized” a pretty word for tracked and analyzed. DONT LIKE IT AT ALL.
Let’s paint it black…
I see a window and I want to paint it black
Maybe it would’ve stopped the sandwich f’er in the Walmart in my town! I am still sick at my stomach because of it! Walked in on a guy literally jumping a subway sandwich in the men’s room
Black spray paint will stop this invasion of privacy.
Idiots…..if you have been to Las Vegas, your face has been read. All the Casinos use this software…have been for years.
Could possibly catch a few real criminals. Child abductors, kidnappers, wife abusers.
I shop there is little as possible anyways. Walmart and their privacy issues can kiss my white ass
Nothing to hide, nothing to worry about.