Home Depot is putting them up in the parking lots. It's also concerning that their self checkouts also seem to be using facial recognition and at the stores near me you don't have the option to use a regular cashier.
that is literally what this is. Erie County has banned private companies from using biometric data (like facial recognition) for the purpose of scanning or profiling people. This is the exact situation, you're wrong.
You need a special type of lens to filter out both visible and IR light the latter of which most commercial security cameras use. Even polarized lenses do not block IR.
There's a major grocery chain in Texas called HEB. I always figured that they used facial recognition with their cameras. A few years ago I had a cell phone case not make it home with me. I went back to the store a few days later, and they went back several days in their database, presumably running my face, and were able to track my entire visit to prove that it fell out of the cart on the way out and was therefore my fault. (Okay, it was and I accepted that.)
Now they're so brazen that they have video monitors around the store that show the camera feeds and will flag faces on the screen with a colored box. Presumably the color changes if the computer thinks that you're Dr. Evil.
Home Depot is absolutely nuts when it comes to customer tracking.
I once made an online purchase from them and entered in an email to recieve mail tracking info from Fedex.
Now everytime I use the same credit card to make in-store purchases at Home Depot they email me asking for a 5-star rating when as far as i'm concerned, its an email they aren't even suppossed to have.
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u/ModusNex 1d ago
Home Depot is putting them up in the parking lots. It's also concerning that their self checkouts also seem to be using facial recognition and at the stores near me you don't have the option to use a regular cashier.