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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Maybe that’s how Wally World gets snapshots of it’s off the wall customers!
This Technology, “Facial Recognition” has been in use for most of this Century; Safeway and Fred Meyer/Kroger told a Scurvy Thief Mother in Law of mine, having been convicted of “Habitual Shoplifting”. “We will know if you ever enter any of our stores again, because we are integrating Facial Recognition Software into our Security Cameras.” I thought they might be bluffing, but Homeland Security relies on the same stuff to monitor Airports, and now Walmart ….
Can we say “minority report”?
I’m sure that this has to do with theft. If you aren’t stealing anything you don’t need to worry about it.
So What??? Does this guy even realize how much customer theft goes on? how much it costs the buying public? That is the one that absorbs the cost of theft. No one can expect privacy any longer with all of the crime an theft on going.
I doubt Wal-Mart would spend that much money on this.
Only the paranoid will be woried about this.
They need to spend money on more Cashier’s !
Walmart has long ben a user of facial recognition software.
Walmart has used fr software for years as part of in store security.