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:
Would you really want the cops taking down a shooter in front your wife and kids…wake up this world is dangerous!
They may catch people using stolen credit cards.
This is great, 99% of the time someone on the run always stops at a Wal Mart
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Our state minimum wage is higher.
Sounds like they are sticking there nose where it don’t belong
More Big Brother!!???
I noticed one at our Walmart yesterday, had a screen on it that said recording in progress, it was right by the baby stuff.
They are smarter than the Feds I guess.
Carry a stubby can of spray paint.