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:
A hand held laser is fun with these….
Minority report
Steve Jones I agree, every time you turn around, the gov becomes more intrusive. The worse part is they are so corrupt!! It’s not a question of whether or not you have something to hide. It’s called privacy and freedom. The more control they take, they chip away at our freedom.
I hate WalMart. Sam Walton would be rolling in his grave if he knew how much his capitalist family members have driven mom and pop stores out of business with their buying power so smaller stores can’t compete. To make matters worse, they offer you S**T merchandise at more expensive prices, once all their competition is driven out of business. F**K WALMART. I avoid that place as much as I possibly can, and sincerely hope the entire corporation goes tits up dead right there.
I like to show them my other “face”. The one that has a vertical smile… hehehe
Wally World, you’ve lost all my business forever. I’ll never darken your door again, not because I have anything to hide, but because you don’t have the right to track me.
So what???
Sad state of affairs with all the low lifes that make this that way.
I don’t know why people are freaking out. They already have hacked your phones and smart tv and computers. Snowden reported this years ago and people act surprised?
Good next they can install some fucking cashier at the registers