Micro location of your location in stores the next boon for the police state
"Concerns about tracking shoppers in-store intensified this month when Amazon debuted a new automated concept store, Amazon Go. A patent filed in 2014 by the company showed how an automated checkout store could work: Cameras and other technologies would follow individual shoppers - and could identify them by their skin tone - and analyze their behavior throughout the store. It's unclear if this is the system behind Amazon Go. The company declined to comment for this story.
It comes after retailers' apps have spent years trying to track users with a different technology: geolocation "beacons" that ping your smartphone as you visit stores. Beacons are tiny gadgets, positioned throughout the store, that can communicate with your smartphone to match your identity to your location. "
Yeah, that's exactly what I would want right when the government is talking about cracking down on "fake news" and labeling anyone who does not toe the line an enemy of the state. REAL NICE. It would make me happy to know my location was pegged down to an exact spot in a particular store! Marketing purposes MY *ss.
If you take a look at this report by CNBC, it should take approximately ZERO (0) neurons to see the writing on the wall with this, it is pretty blatant.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/29/enjoy-brick-and-mortar-shopping-get-ready-to-be-watched-very-closely.html
MEXICAN ANONYMOUS
"Concerns about tracking shoppers in-store intensified this month when Amazon debuted a new automated concept store, Amazon Go. A patent filed in 2014 by the company showed how an automated checkout store could work: Cameras and other technologies would follow individual shoppers - and could identify them by their skin tone - and analyze their behavior throughout the store. It's unclear if this is the system behind Amazon Go. The company declined to comment for this story.
It comes after retailers' apps have spent years trying to track users with a different technology: geolocation "beacons" that ping your smartphone as you visit stores. Beacons are tiny gadgets, positioned throughout the store, that can communicate with your smartphone to match your identity to your location. "
Yeah, that's exactly what I would want right when the government is talking about cracking down on "fake news" and labeling anyone who does not toe the line an enemy of the state. REAL NICE. It would make me happy to know my location was pegged down to an exact spot in a particular store! Marketing purposes MY *ss.
If you take a look at this report by CNBC, it should take approximately ZERO (0) neurons to see the writing on the wall with this, it is pretty blatant.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/29/enjoy-brick-and-mortar-shopping-get-ready-to-be-watched-very-closely.html
MEXICAN ANONYMOUS