Re:Amazon Go
by homerguy69 on Monday December 05, 2016 @11:15AM
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Its probably too creepy in terms of privacy to detail how it works which in turn will give themselves PR. I can only assume it uses arrays of cameras and sensors with deep learning. Glorious amounts of tracking data.
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My current best guess is, basically what you've suggested.
The Amazon Go page says "Computer Vision" which means "Cameras, Cameras Everywhere!". It also says "Sensor Fusion," I bet that means at the very least "Wifi and Bluetooth," with which they'll use to place your location on a virtual map of the store. That location could then be compared with the computer vision object tracking location to "double check" that you really are at that location. And so on.
yep. full on dystopian tracking was my first thought.
It's not "dystopian" if you're on private property and have accepted their terms of service. You can avoid surveillance by, you know, choosing not to shop there.
Re:Amazon Go
by quickConclusion on Monday December 05, 2016 @05:27PM
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If there is no way for me to delete my personal data after i leave the store, i find it distopyan.
If one day all the stores are like this, I guess you may argue I can still grow my own food, and everything is fine.
> If there is no way for me to delete my personal data after i leave the store, i find it distopyan.
By "personal data", if you mean the video footage of your shopping, then it will probably be deleted after a few days/weeks. It will just be used to train (reinforce) the machine learning model, and will be discarded eventually. But your shopping history will always be there, as it is now in online shopping sites...