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If I'm in a store and the store has a camera that I know will probably never be looked at, it's different from me being in a store with a camera that will be fe
by 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y ago
If I'm in a store and the store has a camera that I know will probably never be looked at, it's different from me being in a store with a camera that will be fed into some facial recognition system sold to advertisers that decides to charge me more for airline tickets a year later, which is also different from sitting across the bar from twenty people with cameraphones pointed at me. It's not a binary 'cares about cameras or doesn't.'
- taylorfinley 5y agoYou don't think all the cameras in big box stores are networked and monitored by AI? I would be shocked if they're not doing customer tracking. Notice the number of face-level cameras popping up in Wal-Mart, they even have them built in to the front doors at chest height so they can scan every face and then track what you're looking at as you peruse the shelves.
- CamperBob2 5y agoAn underrated point. All those security cameras represent an inexhaustible source of monetizable data that is currently going to waste. Right now there are too many retail security cameras for humans to monitor constantly, and too many shoppers to tag and track even if the data could be retained and processed. But both of these problems are well on their way to being solved.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y agoI certainly didn't mean to imply that they aren't doing it. But I also don't like it, which was my intended statement. Especially so if they're sharing data about me specifically outside of their store, or if they're using it to charge me special prices.