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I think I saw somewhere that they put plates of repeat shoplifters in there for notification when they roll up. Surveillance state? Surveillance corporate states.
Fair enough but then they sell it too... Everything is going to be this way going forward. People need to start taking privacy more seriously.
Most of them will walk into these retial locations with wifi and BT on
Whoever came up with selling it (if it wasn't sold to them this way) probably got a huge promotion.
Correct that's called business development and that's who makes the most money within any corporate generally
Corpos always win
I saw the writing on the wall and just ordered a pair of infrared blocking prescription glasses, that should at least fuck up the facial recognition for a hot minute before it gets too good for even that.
I sort of need to keep my BT on for my glucose monitor and insulin pump 😔
that's a valid reason but vast majority keeps BT on just because it is on by default
Tracking MAC addresses at scale is very hard. It is easier to do faces.
Especially since cell phones randomize macs for privacy. Been doing that for years.
I don't think watches, earbuds and other Bluetooth devices do. Also typically the MAC is per SSID/device
The reason they are hard to track is that you would need to track thousands of devices and then somehow correlate all of it. They are really only useful if you are trying to target someone but even at that there are easier ways.
Hey, you may have not heard of it, but there’s this thing called computers that do this job without breaking a sweat, this engineering problem has already solved, holy cow you underestimate people‘s desire to do horrible stuff.
Lowe's does exactly that. My store even have nicknames for repeat offenders.
People are pretty obvious