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More like the clerk asking you to please take your hat and sunglasses off so their CCTV facial recognition system can identify you and keep track of your moveme

More like the clerk asking you to please take your hat and sunglasses off so their CCTV facial recognition system can identify you and keep track of your movements in the store.

adtac 8y ago
So WP is afraid I'll shoplift articles? Because the purpose of CCTV cameras is security, not marketing.
- brennebeck 8y ago
  I think the gp’s point was an analogy, not actually what is being used.
  - tunap 8y ago
    Better analogy: Please disable your data & use our "free wifi" to better triangulate your movements, download the contents of your contacts, emails, texts, browser history and while we're at it, drop a tracking app/cookie/x on your phone, etc....
    - brennebeck 8y ago
      Yup, I agree there are other, more accurate representations possible. I just wanted to clarify what seemed to be conveyed by op, as there appeared be a misunderstanding based on the reply. Thanks for the additional example.
- kqr 8y ago
  So lets put it this way instead: As soon as CCTV starts being used for marketing, any employee asking me to remove my sunglasses will have the effect of enforting my desire to wear them indoors.
  - rebuilder 8y ago
    Would you really be fine with that as long as no marketing was involved?
- _puk 8y ago
  You sure about that? Facial Recognition systems are out in the wild, busy profiling [0] 0: https://twitter.com/GambleLee/status/862307447276544000 https://twitter.com/GambleLee/status/862307447276544000
- rebuilder 8y ago
  And what's the purpose of cookies? I'm saying if a store used ther CCTV systems to track the behaviour of individual customers, and was building a database of that information, and pestered their customers whose apparel foiled their facial recognition, then that would be pretty much exactly what WP are doing here. What the tools used might have originally been designed for doesn't make any difference IMO.
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zoggenhoff 8y ago
Creepy. But then again if you make analogies for most web sites/services they get creepy real fast. This is how far things have moved since the previous "analog" days.

More like the clerk asking you to please take your hat and sunglasses off so their CCTV facial recognition system can identify you and keep track of your movements in the store.

adtac 8y ago

So WP is afraid I'll shoplift articles? Because the purpose of CCTV cameras is security, not marketing.

brennebeck 8y ago
I think the gp’s point was an analogy, not actually what is being used.
- tunap 8y ago
  Better analogy: Please disable your data & use our "free wifi" to better triangulate your movements, download the contents of your contacts, emails, texts, browser history and while we're at it, drop a tracking app/cookie/x on your phone, etc....
  - brennebeck 8y ago
    Yup, I agree there are other, more accurate representations possible. I just wanted to clarify what seemed to be conveyed by op, as there appeared be a misunderstanding based on the reply. Thanks for the additional example.
kqr 8y ago
So lets put it this way instead: As soon as CCTV starts being used for marketing, any employee asking me to remove my sunglasses will have the effect of enforting my desire to wear them indoors.
- rebuilder 8y ago
  Would you really be fine with that as long as no marketing was involved?
_puk 8y ago
You sure about that? Facial Recognition systems are out in the wild, busy profiling [0] 0: https://twitter.com/GambleLee/status/862307447276544000 https://twitter.com/GambleLee/status/862307447276544000
rebuilder 8y ago
And what's the purpose of cookies? I'm saying if a store used ther CCTV systems to track the behaviour of individual customers, and was building a database of that information, and pestered their customers whose apparel foiled their facial recognition, then that would be pretty much exactly what WP are doing here. What the tools used might have originally been designed for doesn't make any difference IMO.

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zoggenhoff 8y ago

Creepy. But then again if you make analogies for most web sites/services they get creepy real fast. This is how far things have moved since the previous "analog" days.