The surveillance economy is too profitable for this to change any time soon.
Walmart is rolling out facial recognition across all their stores. Doesn’t matter if you pay cash. Pay with a card once and you’re identified.
I consulted for Axciom and the best way to avoid their reach is to move to a country with good privacy laws or to a country that’s too poor for these big companies to care about.
Even if you don't pay by card... if they have facial recognition and someone has upload your photo on facebook, or you uploaded your photo on facebook 10 years ago when you were 14, then they already know who you are, probably better than yourself, even if you deleted that photo when you were 18.
Target has had facial recognition for the better part of the last decade. Not sure if they've integrated with their non-security oriented systems, but I'd be surprised if they hadn't.
Walmart is rolling out facial recognition across all their stores. Doesn’t matter if you pay cash. Pay with a card once and you’re identified.
I consulted for Axciom and the best way to avoid their reach is to move to a country with good privacy laws or to a country that’s too poor for these big companies to care about.