November 11, 2013

UK Supermarkets to Start Face Scanning

The UK supermarket chain Tesco has decided to install facial recognition system in order to display targeted video ads on screens at its gas stations.

Dubbed OptimEyes, the technology is able to recognize facial characteristics which discover a visitor’s gender and age to show relevant video ads while people are waiting to pay for their gas.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I fucking hate The UK, except for Wales, which has no business being a part of that police-state.

You people who are still living there have no one to blame but yourselves for allowing every damned thing that you have ALLOWED to happen to you, to happen, from having your right-to-self-defense be taken-away, to having many millions of cameras recording your every move in literally almost every part of London, to now...THIS.

Your English complacency did this, so now what are you going to do about it? Cry-me-a-river, why don't you?

Exactly.

Lindsey

NB: As bad as The United States of America has become, it is nowhere fucking CLOSE to the nightmare that The UK HAS become, and THANK GOD that I am an American.