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Facial ID technology at stores will soon watch you shop.


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Banks and casinos have been doing it for years. The cameras create an algorithm for your face so if you ever appear again after cheating/robbing then it creates a notification.

Its a little different in the sense that it’s facial recognition and not watching exactly what you’re looking at.

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7 hours ago, spit said:

how can we as citizens prevent this?  it's not like this is something that we voted for/against, or was it?  the EU takes privacy much more seriously, no?

oh yeah, and keyword "eyeing"

Look at google streetview in germany.

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This has been coming for years and is closer than you think.  Specifically to restaurants like McDonalds, Dunkin, etc which have been working to get this developed in stores.  They will keep a history of your orders so they know what you want when you walk in.  It also will change the menu screens to influence you to purchase certain items.

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5 hours ago, Bigbend1812 said:

This is what I instantly thought of when I was in downtown Dallas last weekend.   All those goddamn scooters.  Walk fat-ass! 

I think of it every time I drive past dead dog field on game days -- it is astounding how much SEC fans will pay in order to park as close as possible to the stadium, because they are not especially ambulatory. Lard Lad ought to be the conference mascot.

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  • 2 years later...

I think we're almost here.  Faster than I imagined.  One facial recognition targeted ad company shot up ~700% in value yesterday.  Today, I'm seeing monitors in the grocery store AISLES telling me I'm being recorded.  Fuck.

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On 4/24/2019 at 7:26 AM, bernorange said:

I guess I'm going to start a new fashion trend at the Galleria.

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On 4/24/2019 at 10:21 AM, Fudge Nuggets said:

Yep, that won't cause any lockdowns or other assorted interruptions.

I posted that joke ~2 years ago.  Thanks to Covid last year, it's more or less socially acceptable to wear masks now.  Maybe not full balaclava like the image I posted, but if this surveillance crap becomes ubiquitous perhaps enterprising clothiers will design fashionable masks that serve dual purposes.

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1 hour ago, RDCanecutter said:

Seems like a good time to switch to the little Tienda Mexicana that operates on cash.

even better if they have in-house panaderia.

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On 4/25/2019 at 12:26 AM, po elvis said:

They already pretty much know everything I buy since I use my debit card. So now they will able to know what I am likely to buy when I walk in the store? Don't care.


It’s like the music industry. In the future it can allow companies to better tell you what to buy and greatly increases the rate at which you obey without you knowing. It gives you the illusion of choice while allowing corps to become pseudo-monopolies and squeeze out new business. That’s not great for the economy and middle class who pays for everything our government does.

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14 hours ago, XYZ said:

Go to Uruguay instead. It’s a smaller Argentina with less poverty and more stability.

I was in a parade once where we were behind some tall Uruguayan women who were occasionally doing some sort of shooky-shooky-shake dance. I can think of no reason for a single man not to visit.

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3 hours ago, Doc Reeves said:


It’s like the music industry. In the future it can allow companies to better tell you what to buy and greatly increases the rate at which you obey without you knowing. It gives you the illusion of choice while allowing corps to become pseudo-monopolies and squeeze out new business. That’s not great for the economy and middle class who pays for everything our government does.

That's my concern.  That and behavioral control.  We already have facial recognition cameras on the borders with studies showing they are inherently biased.

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