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Senators want investigation of AI-enabled ammo vending machines (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The machines are distributed by the Texas-based American Rounds.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

yup.

So. Their security cameras, that are literally everywhere in the store? they're tied into all sorts of biometrics. Facial recognition, gate recognition.

They also get your name, address, etc, if you ever use a credit or debit card, and match it to that. Their system goes and dives and runs everything public about you, as well as they record everything you do, everything you buy, and build that into a dossier. Their loss prevention staff, get alerts about anyone they think needs to be watched.

pretty much all of the big box stores and other large retail chains are using these kinds of systems. hell, Some places have started using "smart" cameras to track how long you stare at the gossip rags while waiting to check out, or the candy as you walk by the candy aisle.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

None of this would be very surprising to me but you got a source on this?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This all sounds like bullshit to me without sources.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

ACLU on biometrics

Forbes on IoT devices

ArsTech on facial rec. retailers love to blame everything they fucking can on shoplifters. it's a great excuse.

Walmart bragging about it in their online space. Sure, that's online. But Walmart has had the ability to track everything you do in the store for literal decades, and has actively developed AI facial recog (and lets be honest, other related biometrics). If you think the online data is valuable... then you gotta wonder about the physical end of it to.

And it's incredibly valuable as IoT tags start pushing you advertisements, and all those smart shelves they're installing are tracking where you look as they flash their cheery little adverts that are crafted with the advice and input of a small army of neuroscientistis. oh. that sounds ridiculous bullshit doesn't it? Actually, the field is now it's own field called 'neuromarketing'. the IoT shelves, the security systems tracking customers providing near-real-time feedback on those things all require a massive database.

What's really disgusting is that they will cheerfully lie to you and tell you its to make your experience better.. (if that's even true at all, it's because they want the spare change they didn't get.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Fuck yes. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

You never paid attention to the screens above the line for the self checkouts? You can see the system isolating faces and gait in real-time.