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ttraub | 5 years ago

According to the article, this particular system doesn't monitor the shopper, but rather the movements of products as they are picked up and examined. They specifically say they don't use cameras.

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Jkvngt|5 years ago

The slippery slope is real, though. We all know it by now.

toss1|5 years ago

And at least this group is specifically setting their crampons and climbing back up that slippery slope - they specifically said that the cameras capture TOO MUCH data

This is more like an upgraded version the traffic counters with pneumatic hoses that have been used to count road traffic for many decades. they know how many vehicles go by (actually, how many axles), and when, but no idea who, but it still provides valuable information to the planners (I sometimes wondered if they were sufficiently sensitive to count bicycles).