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 wouldn’t be so concerned, except according to my bank’s fraud department, Walmart and Target store your credit card info, making it available to be stolen by hackers. She said 90% of their cloned-card identity theft originates through walmart and target hacks, with the bulk being from WalMart.
Lmao
It obviously needs power to work, it just uses the 5v power delivered by the ethernet cable.
After working for Walmart, as long as they use it for asset protection, it’s ok with me! The more they catch thieves, the sooner prices go down!
Be sure and give Sam Orwell a one finger salute as you go by….
Shop at Kmart and keep them from going under.
Oh well if you’re an honest person what are you worried about oh yes one more thing I want to bring up if you’re ever at an ATM and someone’s trying to rob you typing ATM pin number backwards the money will come out of the slot and it will get locked there atm will start taking video and notify the police so why that crook is trying to figure out why you can’t get the money out surprise
I thought that’s what it seemed like. It appears it’s only facial recognition in the sense that it says “hey, that looks like a face.” I could be wrong, but by the generic yellow boxes around the objects that’s just the way it seems
Ours pay more than 8
Wow