• tal@lemmy.today
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    7 days ago

    I mean, that Walmart already is going to have had cameras all over the ceiling for a long time.

    I’m a little annoyed by a local sandwich shop having their ordering kiosk — which had a camera added — recognize me and start recommending things based on my prior purchases there.

    Now when I order at a kiosk, if I see something that looks like a camera, I put my hand over it.

    • Snapz@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      Dude… Are you really oblivious to the difference? These are for facial recognition, eye tracking and surveillance pricing through RFID price tags.

      • Ghoelian@piefed.social
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        7 days ago

        The only part of that not really possible with ceiling cameras is eye tracking, you don’t need eye-level cameras for the other two.

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          6 days ago

          To a point, but if you want it done more efficiently in multiple ways, you get cameras like this.

          Seriously though, do you even know what you are arguing for here? What you are defending? Insecure people on the internet, trying to be right for the sake of it, even if it means casually normalizing the next indicator of our fascist takeover.

          What are you doing?

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            6 days ago

            I’m not defending anything lol, I’m just saying this surveillance doesn’t add a whole lot to the existing surveillance as far as I can tell, which is already pretty bad.