Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with.
I don’t know about Walmart but I heard Target will facial recognize you and deliberately wait across multiple trips until you have stolen enough to make it grand theft before taking action.
Is that tracking distributed across stores or do I have license to steal $9999 from each one?
Probably the amount stolen within the same state. But once you’re committing crimes across state lines, you’ve got bigger problems on your hands.
And yes, they definitely share data across their whole company.
Let us know what you find out
I did Target security for a few months. Yes they build cases against people until it’s criminal action. It’s also not subject to one store. Rather I could just type in descriptions of people (apparent age, height, skin tone, etc) and it would search those descriptions. I could then match the person and add it to the running total. When I left I heard that some markets were rolling out an AI to track people. I can answer any questions if there’s anyone who want to know more.
Do you know how long do they keep video for, or is it just eternity?
That was can vary, I’d it’s a PTZ (pan, tilt, zoom) camera only like 3-5 days. Otherwise up to 30 days. If we were actually saving video, it was to make a police report, and we would burn it to a CD for a cop to collect. Otherwise we just used the videos to get pictures and save those to the persons profile, presumably for forever. Also as a side note the PTZ camera can get your license plate, clearly, from anywhere it can line of sight see in the parking lots.
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How would that be illegal?
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This is a well known thing that Target does: https://www.dailydot.com/news/target-grand-larceny-psa/?amp
Source: Kaitlyn, e.g. tiktok.com/@reddnea
Not saying it’s untrue, I totally believe it could be the case, but also not exactly the most iron-clad source of information lol.
That’s just the most recent article I could find, you can go back over reporting on the same for at least a decade.
Fair enough. I’m sure they likely are doing this, why wouldn’t they if no one’s stopped them. Even while being technically illegal in the US as another user stated, FBI or retired police involvement wouldn’t be surprising in the slightest, unfortunately.
I highly doubt it’s illegal for a private entity to withhold reporting a crime until they have enough evidence to be actioned on. They made a claim without providing any sort of source backing it up, and the fact that many companies do it points to it being legal, at least in most places they operate.
Yea that’s completely wrong, that’s just called building a case and collecting evidence.