Dressing for the Surveillance Age

Re:Dressing for the Surveillance Age by tinkthank on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @05:42AM (#22544394)

I imagine this could be neat way to troll Amazon's walk-out stores. I'm not entirely sure how those stores work, but I'm guessing they keep track of you with cameras to tie you to a credit card. Someone enters the store, registers their card, but then just disappears. Suddenly stuff is disappearing off the shelves, attributable to no customer. Would the system just let them walk in its confusion or sound an alarm?

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Re:Dressing for the Surveillance Age by dTal on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @08:07AM (#22545059)

I imagine the products themselves must be tagged in some way, or you could trick the system with sleight of hand (I don't think it's visually tracking what goes into your basket). In which case, I imagine there would be an alarm if a product floats out of the door, accompanied by a mysterious stranger while another shopper supposedly in the store is missing.

Or rather than an alarm, they would probably just sort it out later and charge your card.

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Re:Dressing for the Surveillance Age by TheGallopedHigh on Thursday March 12, 2020 @03:40AM (#22554627)

I believe it is vision tracking that does the monitoring.

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