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Damn shame how there are no laws to regulate this sort of a thing. The obvious convenience means this tech will be the norm. Is it better to live in a society w

Damn shame how there are no laws to regulate this sort of a thing. The obvious convenience means this tech will be the norm. Is it better to live in a society where my movement being tracked is the only way to buy groceries compared to a third world country where I barely survive? I don't know, but it truly is remarkable how technology has ruined even the most basic human freedoms and dignity. The more I look at new tech the more I wonder if technology is like a bell curve where right now humanity is over the peak and descending rapidly to the point where the benefits of tech are outweighed by it's harms. At the end, it isn't technology's fault but man's greed and arrogance

laughinghan 7y ago
Isn't it already the norm that there are security cameras in retail stores to catch shoplifters? This doesn't really change that.
- badrabbit 7y ago
  Yes. Recordings of video, not analysis of your movement and tracking people with their name,social information,history facial recognition and gait analysis. Is there a difference between a security guard watching you and a person walking around writing down every move you make, every facial expression,posture,gesture,mood,interaction and instantly applying sophisticated correlation in conjunction with thousands of historical data points about you? Come on! There is a difference between a firecracker and thermonuclear bomb.
  - laughinghan 7y ago
    Yes, but what does that have to do with "Just walk out"? Grocery stores across the country could do (or may be already doing) all the creepy things you're describing without implementing "Just walk out", with the security cameras they already universally have installed. Or, they could implement "Just walk out" without doing any of those creepy things. They're irrelevant to each other. I don't see why you have a problem with "Just walk out", it seems to me like your problem is with the prevalence of security cameras. That's a valid criticism of, say, Ring, because it's pushing to increase the prevalence of home security cameras, but "Just walk out" isn't going to increase the prevalence of retail store security cameras, they're already ubiquitous.

laughinghan 7y ago

Isn't it already the norm that there are security cameras in retail stores to catch shoplifters? This doesn't really change that.

badrabbit 7y ago
Yes. Recordings of video, not analysis of your movement and tracking people with their name,social information,history facial recognition and gait analysis. Is there a difference between a security guard watching you and a person walking around writing down every move you make, every facial expression,posture,gesture,mood,interaction and instantly applying sophisticated correlation in conjunction with thousands of historical data points about you? Come on! There is a difference between a firecracker and thermonuclear bomb.
- laughinghan 7y ago
  Yes, but what does that have to do with "Just walk out"? Grocery stores across the country could do (or may be already doing) all the creepy things you're describing without implementing "Just walk out", with the security cameras they already universally have installed. Or, they could implement "Just walk out" without doing any of those creepy things. They're irrelevant to each other. I don't see why you have a problem with "Just walk out", it seems to me like your problem is with the prevalence of security cameras. That's a valid criticism of, say, Ring, because it's pushing to increase the prevalence of home security cameras, but "Just walk out" isn't going to increase the prevalence of retail store security cameras, they're already ubiquitous.