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:
Do you only pay in cash then?
Unless all these people whinning about privacy use only cash for every thing that requires an exchange of funds including your compensation for work, never use a cell phone, landline, tablet, computer, iPad, iPod, or any other electronic device, have zero identification, and live completely off grid, your so called privacy is invaded multiple times a day.
I have no problem with this.
Good lord. This invasion of privacy is getting ridiculous. They can pull.uo all our conversations, track our day with our phones, use our shopping cards to track what we buy, etc
If I want to buy a pack of tampons I should be able to do it without it being Metadata for the rest of my life. We are seriously close to becoming a police state
It is not an invasion of privacy. It is in a public place. No reasonable expectation of privacy.
And yall that don’t shop there are the first to$#%&!@*about where your not! Lol
If you stop at a red light your in the system. Wakeup
I like it.
So is it a crime to walk up and slap a piece of duct tape on it.
Really?? They can’t afford cashier’s but install expensive “facial recognition cameras”?? Well that blows thier theory of “Welcome to Wal-Mart, how may we serve you today?” They’d be wise to call this new gizmo “Customer Recognition Cameras” for pretending that they give a damn about “Customer service” anymore!