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Alarm raised over ‘privacy dilemma’ of facial recognition technology at Coles and Woolworths (www.theguardian.com)
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Supermarkets say they are exploring ways to keep people safe, but experts claim the tech is ‘normalising surveillance’

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[–] 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

There's a point in the not-too-distant future where I'm just wearing my covid mask whenever I leave the house. I already wear it in Bunnings. And it won't be long before camera glasses are so prevalent that my assumption is I'm always being filmed in public.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    They are probably doing ML-based gait analysis to ID obscured faces. Trivial to then link it to a credit card, then identity at checkout.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    My understanding of current gait analysis tech is that it isn't commercially ready without special equipment (like floor sensors). Do you have links to more recent info?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Yeah I guess you're right after a search on Google Scholar. Without LIDAR or other independent sensors, even modern ML approaches don't tend to perform reliably.

    Thanks for prompting me to look this up. Here's hoping it never improves.

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