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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Great idea all stores should have these
They are about at the 7.5-8′ mark at the store I work. But still unnerving.
It’s really not a matter of doing anything right or wrong. Yes, Internet sites follow our data. Facebook shows you ads based on sites you were shopping at. They also faced a lawsuit from the UK stating that they were violating human rights. Yes, crime is a problem. I don’t run around breaking the law. I live my day to day life like an average person. It creeps me out that walmart can recognize my face immediately, and is getting to a point where they can pull up my Facebook and online information by seeing me in person. I consider it a violation of privacy, and kind of makes me want to never shop at Walmart again. Technology and the Internet are a little terrifying. They’re also so new and frequently changing, that regulating them is very difficult. I understand that the Internet is stupidly hard to police. However, when I go out in public, I don’t want to have my every move tracked the same way I do on the Internet. A line has to be drawn somewhere, and if you don’t draw a line, that’s when rights get violated. I don’t want to live in a society where literally everything I do is tracked. I would also like to mention to the woman who says that she never breaks the law. You’re lucky you live in this Country and not$#%&!@*Germany. If you felt that committing genocide is wrong, and housed any Jews, you would have been committing a crime. The only reason$#%&!@*Germany got to be as radical as it did, was because no one ever stepped up and drew a line. Right now, this seems like a little thing. Then another little thing that seems creepy (but just little) will happen. Everyone will get used to little violation rights, until it gets to a point where’s it’s escalated, and no one will think anything of it. That’s why seemingly small issues can’t be written off. Cameras are good to have in stores, because it helps capture theft or other questionable incidences. However, Walmart does not need a camera so high tech it can pull up my Internet profile when I walk into a store.
Don’t go to walmart if it bothers you!
Faro Ruffino IV … very interesting.. i could theorize some reasons why wal-mart wants this technology up.
Now the “people of walmart” photos will have a name associated with them. Awsome!
What a bunch of alarmist, paranoid, foaming-at-the-mouth conspiracy-theory c**p. This technology has been around for a while. This software is geared toward retail to customize marketing, (spam, email, specials, etc) and to know if you are a repeat or new customer, etc. It has been in place for awhile and you will see more and more of it as technology develops software for loss-prevention, recognition and marketing. And by the way, power over ethernet or PoE is not new either. Stop reading “The Blaze” and check out technology news occasionally. That way, when you post your next video you don’t SOUND like you live in a buried school bus behind your parent’s house.
If I owned store you would not get inside with out me seeing your face no hat or glasses
Maybe they can catch all the illegals and ship them out the back door in shipping.
So what! Those who have nothing to hide, hide nothing.