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- Its not just gay bars in California. My daughter said a pub in the UK scanned her driving license when checking her age. A supermarket chain just announced they are rolling out face recognition cameras. Its profitable and there will be endless "think of the children" type arguments in favour.by graemep
- It’s probably inevitable in places like the US where in major cities tons of products are behind plexiglass due to “changing consumer habits”.
- Those self checkout kiosks you see at places like McDonalds have facial recognition cameras behind the screen and they’ve been putting in facial recognition at drive thrus for targeted promotions tailored to each person.by lovich
- Has anyone else felt lately that like in the 80s and 90s things were what they appeared to be? A bar was a bar. A church is a church. A museum is a museum. A hospital is a hospital.
Now I can't help but think of all the nefarious owners - maybe it's some non-profit in Isreal, or has funding from China, or is run by the Russian mafia. Nothing seems to be genuine anymore, and every now and then there's some giant scandal that proves it all right. What's left of America. And everyone's asking for more privacy, but I fear the nefarious owner class that has allegiance to some other country is also asking for more privacy.
- One data point is that Stonewall where pride started in 1969 was run by mafia. I do not think it is safe to assume that mafias stopped owning bars in 10 years. Especially considering violent crime peaked in early 90ties.by watwut
- Beyond that are the payment systems and tracking that they have... Point of Sale hardware/software has always been tracking, especially if you regularly use credit/debit cards... your name and Zip+4 is pretty damned accurate for correlated data (aside from jr/sr scenarios, worse).
They share, collaborate and collude and it all strips away your rights. Similar for so many large merchants and the alternative is to pay 10-20% more (or more) for smaller shops. That said, Amazon has gotten so bad with opportunistic pricing that they're sometimes more expensive than the alternatives anyway.
by tracker1 - For what it's worth most gay bars, massage parlors and brothels near military installations have been recorded since the at least the 1970's. The purpose was to identify military personnel at risk of being compromised. None of that information was shared outside of the military.by Bender