[antisemiotic]

>An example might be in store retail analytics- a set up with a bunch of cameras that can detect what people are touching or otherwise interested in.

Because the one thing desperately needed in this world is even more surveillance?

[topkai22]

Most retail stores have been heavily surveilled for a long time by cctv for shoplifting purposes.

One, perhaps naive, hope I have for edge based technologies is to enable scenarios that are actually more private. In my scenario, if the processing of the video stays at the edge and only anonymized or aggregated information is sent up to the cloud/ larger organization, then is much better then if the video is shipped offsite and processed.

It’ll take some interesting legislative efforts to really frame this well, but the Europeans (and the state or Illinois with their facial recognition law?) at least seem to be headed that way.

[goodfight]

This already happens with bluetooth phones in stores. They simply ping you from an array and can track your movement throughout the store.