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The next time you go on a trip to the mall,
give those mannequins a nice big smile! This 245 billion (yes, with a
“B”) dollar industry consists of five organizations throughout Europe
and the US that make the ‘Eye See polystyrene frame mannequins.’ These
particular mannequins’ eyes are equipped with face recognition cameras.
Despite the fact that surveillance gadgets hidden in a
mannequin’s eyes is not seen as a security infringement by the general
public, it has led to a few retailers raising the stakes as some of them
have also started tracking people by means of collecting data from
their cell phones. Though new security laws and rules are limiting the
use of retail surveillance, these new creations are reportedly
being used not only for law-enforcement but to permit retailers to
gather information about you for advertising purposes.
Image Source: Google Image – A picture of Lady Liberty at night
If you think mannequins are the weirdest things
watching you, then how about this one… the Statue of Liberty — the
statue that welcomes the poor, the meek and huddled masses — has also
been fitted with ‘the all-eeing eye(s)’ since 2002. It was back then
when face recognition software was first introduced to the masses. In
2012, a company called Total Recall Corporation furnished our Lady
Liberty with ‘Face VACS Video Scan’ software, which tracks a huge number
of New Yorkers’ faces in real time.
Image Source: Wikipedia – Cigarette vending machines in Tokyo, with a woman promoting the products
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a candy machine burglary was
solved after the crooks’ faces were identified via the camera inside the
vending machine. These cameras are owned and installed by the vending
machine companies themselves. The reason, other than law enforcement, is
obscure and they might very well be there to identify you for market
surveying as well.
Image Source: Wikipedia – The Xbox One’s Kinect, a motion controller peripheral for the console.
The XBOX Kinect, the motion-detecting console
accessory, is also outfitted with cameras used to detect your motions
and turn them into actions in a video game. However, imagine a scenario
where you figured out that not only is your Kinect recording and
storing your movements, it could also be recording and archiving the
discussions you have while you’re playing — even while it’s switched
off. Microsoft, to this day, denies that Kinect records conversations
but in the same sentence they brag about its ability to monitor your
heart rate and recognize your voice.
Image Source: Google Image – A graphic display of a digital billboard
The organization Immersive Labs has
developed technology for digital billboards that permits them to
monitor your face and, after analyzing you, tailoring a particular
commercial to play taking into account your facial features.
Image Source: Google Image – Different company logos
Adidas, Kraft and other organizations all utilize
facial recognition technology in various stores to help them make more
focused TV advertisements. The creepiest part of this is that the
cameras are also connected to Facebook as well, so the organization
could speculatively couple their feature reconnaissance with online
networking profiles for a significantly juicier information grab.
Image Source: Google Image – An image of Seattle at night.
And finally… a new tool that is fit for hi-tech
surveillance will be introduced at numerous intersections in downtown
Seattle, and rumor has it that there is another innovation being
utilized here that includes triangulating our mobile phones, so that
they essentially become rogue devices.
1 comment:
it's a damn hoax to say there is any fourth amendment that is part of this country's corporate UNITED STATES at all.....the fourth amendment has been literally wiped out forever.
is anybody here aware of this fact? think you still aren't being tracked twenty-four seven?
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