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Re:Many Americans not aware of being tracked with facial rec... by kevinsundar on Monday August 16, 2021 @03:38PM (#28201949)
Its just security theater as a theft deterrent. The idea is that if you see a screen with a green box around your face then you believe that they've got a good look at you and if you steal then they can use the images.

Walmart isn't investing money building networked cameras with the processing ability to perform facial recognition at scale in real time. It'd probably cost more money than paying employees to just watch people at the store exits.

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Re:Many Americans not aware of being tracked with facial rec... by HWR_14 on Monday August 16, 2021 @06:36PM (#28203826)
It's entirely possible that they are only pretending to do facial recognition as theft deterrent.

They could also be recording the video and doing the facial recognition offline - the analytics aren't valuable in realtime.

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