Oddbean new post about login | logout Stopped by a nearby store for lunch break. All automated checkout. Zero people. The checkout kiosk records your face as you pay. Zero ways to opt out. You’d have to know ahead of time this is happening but by the time you notice it’s already too late. Felt a bit like all hope is already lost. If this is what we accept as ok.. then what’s the point of anything? Who needs eye orbs when your friendly neighborhood supermarket has already scanned you. 🤦♂️ Tell me something positive… is there any hope?
Yeah, I wouldn't left my carriage full of things right there and walked out.
Too late though. You’re already in their records.
For walking in
Nope. You would be there trying to check out without knowing this is happening because it’s not obvious.
Ya. Thats insane.
I'm wearing my sunglasses inside more often 😎💜😅
Amazon is also implementing palm scans to pay at their stores and track every move you make. This is too bad, luckily there are many who don't accept this and are against it.
Hat/CSP with IR LEDs under the brim with a small latching switch in the side band, allows me to easily turn on when approaching the self checkouts, floods the sensor not allowing a good image to be collected. I have been followed through a shopping centre when using this, but its not anything they can legally stop me from doing currently. Next step I'd to pulse the led array randomly at 100-300hz which will increase battery life and hopefully produce a random stripe / saturation pattern to the video/image. Not fool proof but simple privacy hack against image capture.
Time for a new fashion trend? https://i.insider.com/5d9f94da4af9091eaf7ff462?width=700&format=jpeg&auto=webp https://www.businessinsider.com/clothes-accessories-that-outsmart-facial-recognition-tech-2019-10#sanne-weekers-a-design-student-in-the-netherlands-created-a-headscarf-decorated-with-faces-intended-to-confuse-algorithms-10
On a Bitcoin standard, it becomes feasible to run local grocery stores with an emphasis on building relationships by offering specialised procurement of goods that doesn't have enough demand, retaining customers by building human connections and procuring goods from local producers. I'm not implying that it will happen. Only that it will be feasible.
Maybe stop shopping there and report it in the comments on their google maps account? Its not going to fix your record situation, but stop shopping there. They can only burn you once if you let them. Others may also not like it as well. Hopefully others dont either. Alternatively you could just put a piece of electrical tape over the camera haha
It’s a given that I’ll never go there again, though it does creative inconvenience in my life. I can also do my best to let others know if anyone even reads that. But tape would have been too late.
Local markets, farmers markets, talk to real people and take your own lunch to work. It'll just make people look for the old ways more.
There are far too many customers for any authority to do anything to you personally with your face pic. Your photo is being taken all the time, at airports, at and cctv street camera, atm, when you walk in most shops. Nobody cares unless you've got an arrest warrant or something. But sure, if it becomes like china and they use ai etc to do social credit, that is a problem, but it's hard for western governments to do that without getting voted out.
Stupid take. It’s not about authorities. It’s about your lack of consent to being recorded and then having that data monetized. You think it’s only there for shoplifting? Guarantee they sell it to data brokers which then gets aggregated even further and ultimately builds your national profile.
Bad take. Defeatist.
Your private keys are still protected right? The public key doesn’t matter. Issue a new one! I don’t understand! One is getting your food and wants to pay infinite interest back to you and you are not happy about it? The either return it back or get eliminated. In both cases what you have lended gets returned. Move everything to a private key.
Yes but trying to save others and your future data.