I might put on my goin out overalls and check these things out. Ain’t my fault I’m a true american with pockets full of wet clay. Takes a pressure washer to get that kind out mud out from under my fingernails.
Let those among us who haven’t accidentally packed our pockets with wet clay cast the first clod
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.
Dude… Are you really oblivious to the difference? These are for facial recognition, eye tracking and surveillance pricing through RFID price tags.
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.
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?
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.
Find the peanut butter aisle. Then make all the aisles peanut butter aisles.
I know someone directly involved with this work/these changes and Walmart absolutely shares this stuff with law enforcement basically freely
Looks like a used gum disposal unit to me
Thoroughly illegal in the EU. Luckily Walmart doesn’t operate there.
It wasn’t luck. They tried and failed, on account of how many of their normal practices are illegal in the EU.
I still have rather fond memories of shopping at Walmart in Germany. Tho I was a child and it always was more of an experience than a chore. Then Wexit happened and the world’s gone to shit ever since
Not yet, at least. It seems that they operate almost everywhere else though
They actually tried it in the EU but failed hard.
I’m interested, what makes it illegal?
(likely) face identification and other surveillance of regular customers, if any data at all is created by that and analyzed or stored by anything that is a grave GDPR violation. Surveillance cameras for larger areas can be allowed but only to record for cases of legitimate control, no automated analysis nor data transfer to god knows where.
Personalised pricing is illegal as well in a supermarket. Digital price tags are allowed (and common) but there are clear rules how often prices are allowed to change. I’d have to research it myself but I think not more than once a day.
Do we have a “boringdystopia” instance on Lemmy yet?
Sometimes I pick up a shirt and then decide I don’t want it, so I just leave it on any old shelf. I’m not very neat about it, and it might hang over the edge a bit. Oops.
Have you ever seen the security room at a Walmart? If you ever thought you weren’t on camera in a Walmart, you were. It’s like a casino.
That particular camera looks like it is in a locking case, usually for hight theft items. The bizarre thing here is why the extra security on Sugar in the Raw and what looks like maybe Stevia.
My God that camera is way too easy to “accidentally” tamper with, lol. At the very least, my kids greese covered finger tips while I stroll by.
Oh, these Cheerios are too bulky! I guess I’ll just place them here, right in front of this electronic eyeball. Pure coincidence.
Oh I got nail polish on my finger accidentally. Good place to wipe it off.
Accidentally.
Oops, my greasy hands just smeared over the lens!
… Whoops, this one too!
Silly me. Better take it down and toss it in the toilet.
Metal scouring pads are only a few aisles over. Aren’t they worried about people being able to so easily reach their expensive equipment?
was gonna ask, what aisle is electrical tape in?
I have a feeling there have been cameras for a while. They just want you to see them
I’m sure that camera could accidentally be damaged or rendered non-functional.
I drop heavy hammers into shelves all the time.
People are stealing sugar?
I’m not a scientist or anything, but that seems like really bad news
I’m guessing the cameras track your gaze, and they use that to decide what people are most interested in.
Seems easier to just look at how many were rung up at the till…
Is for live dynamic pricing. Its why all the tagsaredigital now.
