FILE PHOTO: People line up at a safe social distance outside the grocery store amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Medford, Massachusetts, U.S., April 4, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
Samarth Diamond plans to deploy AI from Glimpse Analytics as soon as its polishing factory re-opens in Gujarat, India, while two Michigan shopping centers owned by RPT Realty will have distancing tracking from RE Insight in two weeks. “The question becomes whether the tech remains after the public health problem goes away, and that is the real privacy fear,” said Al Gidari, a privacy expert at Stanford Law School. “Video in the store today to ensure social distancing remains to identify shoplifters tomorrow.”Reuters spoke with 16 video analytics companies, many of them startups with a few million dollars in annual revenue, that have added offerings because of the coronavirus.
Pepper Construction’s Suerth said its SmartVid system has not flagged crowding issues yet because staffing has been limited. But Suerth said that as more crews arrive, the company will look at trends to issue reminders at “tool box talks.” “It will surely be helpful for the safety of employees and their comfort level, and it will be helpful to show it to authorities that we are adhering” to regulations, Patel said.
It also plans to help consumers decide when to shop by using technology from startup WaitTimes to analyze lines of people waiting to enter stores, a phenomenon that has become common during the pandemic as part of social distancing efforts. Signage will inform shoppers of the anonymous counting, according to Harper.But calculating whether people are six feet apart and detecting objects such as face masks are all novel uses now being tested and launched on accelerated schedules.
Goodbye privacy, goodbye civil rights.....there's a virus with a 0.026% mortality rate....!
Boris Johnson ate my 12-year-old nephew in the hospital before he got better. He ate my family by the brain control of the hospital. China did this, helped him!
British Prime Minister He looks like a cannibalism with brain control technology. Johnson used the power of Brexit to win parliamentary elections. then show his true face. He assisted in the outbreak of plague, to massacre the British …… these are Chinese schemes!
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How about FUCK NO
How very China. Add them to enforce 'social distancing' keep them to enforce social spying.
Here we go.. more cameras, more violations of our privacy in the name of security. Stupid people will say 'I have nothing to hide, why should I care?'
Can America recover without tort reform?
Instead of just, you know, letting people stay home and have the government prop up companies to keep everyone on payroll instead of unemployment....
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