The advances in facial recognition, especially in Asia, are really amazing.
I can foresee a day that the instant you walk into any establishment, the clerks will ALL immediately know juuuuust how nice they “have” to be to you —all clerks will be wired up to the system, like some at Starbucks, or Old Navy, etc.
I mean, tailored to EACH ONE of us, depending on how much over time they know they’ve sold to you —automatically and instantly.
Some marquis luxury retailers like Louis Vuitton, etc. already do this, at least they do so in Tokyo.
I mean, even with a tide of humanity surging into a major store at almost the same time.
Or with a major train station or airport, at peak time, there will be three or five color-coded boxes hovering over each person at all times they’re in there, representing different risk levels. So that the cops can leverage their attention most efficiently on the key risks.
It is all coming super, super fast.
The constraining factor for prying dictators used to be the sheer WORKLOAD entailed by higher levels of control. But computers are things that quickly, repeatedly and mindlessly run through tedious tasks, so that impediment has suddenly gone away.
This has compelled an explosion in apetite for control info.
Facial recognition has been around for a while.
I used to post on a Popular Photography board. Someone posted a program which would let you post a photo and it would match it with a famous person.
I had worked at a Summer retreat which had a lot of beautiful girls. I was the staff photographer and had a lot of photos of pretty girls. I selected three of a particularly pretty girl.
The first photo listed the most common match as Charlize Theron. The second photo gave the same top 3. The third one listed Charlize Theron as the second choice. Really amazing and she really did look like her.
I did my own photo and number one came back Rod Laver.
They have been using bio-metrics at the border for legal crossers and in processing illegals apprehended for a while now. By this point they have to have gathered a lot of data.
I think some of these recently arrived illegals that have deportation orders on them already are going to be in for a rude awakening when the technology is all meshed if it isn’t already. I think it will be fantastic to catch overstays too.
When it all comes together it will make a real impact, before this invasion likely skewed normal numbers about 1/3 of all illegals apprehended had already been previously deported. Of course to make a real difference we need the wall because catching them is only part of it, we have to make sure they can’t easily come right back.
You are right, it is coming fast. For many reasons I am not for it but it is happening and some of the ways it will be used will be great. I worry about the other ways it can be used of course.
“...all clerks will be wired up to the system, like some at Starbucks, or Old Navy, etc.”
I saw that at an Office Depot in Los Angeles - everyone working there looked like a Secret Service agent, every single one. The thought of people talking to me and also hearing who knows what about me, or whatever, was enough to freak me out. Left the store. I saw one other chain saw, but the front line workers on the floor weren’t wired, so I could deal with it.
Facial recognition will enable stores to network on known shop lifters. One they walk in the store, they will be under extra scrutiny.
Today I used a Lowes gift card. They wanted to see my driver’s license and the pin number on the back of the card. People were hacking the card. The cashier told me how people are walking out with tools and taking lawnmower, throwing them in their truck and driving away.