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:
Just another reason not to shop Walmart. Not a place I go to any way.
Not a fan of Big Brother watching over us, but it it helps with put no-goods in jail, it has merit. I don’t shop Walmart anywaqy.
There are satellites in space that can watch your every move and look through your walls see what room your sitting in and what your saying the visual camra don’t scare me it’s the camras that you don’t see … even going off grid you still be tracked so nothing you can do about it …
If this technology will promote people that shop at Walmart to cover up a bit more , from what I’ve seen some shoppers sporting in the way of clothing , or lack of it , I’m all for it !
Now if they start cross referencing your face with social media and in store purchases this means they will start target advertising which they already do. If you look up stuff on ebay or walmart it gets suggested on your fb page already. This c**p is going to far. We have no legitimate reason to believe in privacy.
Kathleen Mabe
I don’t care, when I pay for my stuff, they know who I am anyway.
Lol…yes
Good spot to press your chewing gum on when it goes flavorless.
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