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Re:A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognit... by jhonovich on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:48PM (#14318023)
"The cameras retailers use with their surveillance systems are coming with facial recognition built in now. [1]"

Your source in the marketing material of an IP camera manufacturer.

We research that space and I can guarantee that less than 0.1% of IP cameras have facial recognition built-in or running. These manufacturers, like Axis, whom you cite, would love for such capabilities but they are still very uncommon.

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Re:A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognit... by rdudek on Thursday May 11, 2017 @02:49PM (#14318515)
Can't they still use the feed from regular camera and have another system to facial recognition from that feed?
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Re:A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognit... by alasdair_ on Friday May 12, 2017 @03:10PM (#14326940)
>We research that space and I can guarantee that less than 0.1% of IP cameras have facial recognition built-in or running.

While I'm sure this is true (since the majority of IP cameras in the world are cheap things little more than webcams), do you have a number for retail stores specifically? I know many of the larger chains spend a lot of money on their cameras and movement detection and other intelligence has been onboard those for at least 15 years.

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