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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One more reason to avoid Walmart
Walmart has more cameras than my bank!lol
So you recognize me when I come in. You know my preferences and buying records to predict exactly what I will buy before I even place it in my cart. So, at some point, I won’t have to come to Walmart because every 2.5 months, I buy the same shampoo and conditioner and it can be in my email box and I click, mail me shampoo and a nice teenager brings it to my door? I won’t ever forget the toilet paper because I need a family size every 1.4 months.
If you don’t have anything to hide… then you don’t have to hide from the camera and wouldn’t care. Makes me feel safer.
If you feel that strongly about it, stop shopping at wal-mart. Done.
Yeah we’ll prolly walk into walmart and our cell phones will start getting texts about all the sales they are having on all the web sites weve ever looked at on the internet… Think I’ll block my face if I ever see one of these.
A strong, commercially available laser could easily take care of that thing.
If only knew how far down the rabbit hole this goes.
We the People are being watched
Your Smart phone has the ability to distinguish a face(s), the technology is not new nor is it NOT being used. Analytics as it is commonly referred to are being deployed more and more in our everyday environment. The facial recognition aspect is just ONE of those features and you will see more and more as time goes on. Don’t see a physical barrier in front of that painting at a museum, look for a camera set to alarm when you cross a distance threshold. Want to know how many people enter and exit in real time? The VMS can take tally’s all day long 24 hours a day at not only the ingress/egress points but at any area you like to know traffic patterns for better use of advertising. The feature set of VMS platforms are growing rapidly and soon you may see real time pin point advertising when you walk in an establishment with your name and face and it will have your preferences loaded and ready from past visits. Begin to develop your shopping and spending habits, where you frequent and for how long, what you looked at and picked up to look closer and remember to push that product in some for of advertising.