Walmart has been installing facial recognition cameras at eye level in the entrances of their new store fronts for some time now. These cameras not only have the ability to cross reference you with social media networks to put a name with the face, but utilzes software that has the ability to ascertain a great many things about the environment. How much exactly 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.
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As to why, look to the future. Just like google uses your searches to direct advertising to your browser, any retailer with this technology will be able to manipulate your shopping experience.
Just don’t pick your nose.
back in the day they called this 1984 !!!!!!!
666 coming
wow….
Obviously they are searching social media for People of Wal-Mart matches to help guarantee the highest quality images for future POWM posts.
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Wait until they install RFID scanners so they get your new credit card number coming and going. Oh, they already have them? Good luck.
Those have been on the Walmart stores for many years. It just that when some satire site makes up a store about it all the crazies come out.
Facial recognition is not the same as CCTV. Casinos have been using this tech for a while to spot known cheaters.