I think I did hear brick-and-mortar stores complaining recently about having too many customers, and wondering whether there was something else they could do, something they hadn't thought of yet, to annoy and anger customers, maybe add a little friction to keep them from walking in the door. /irony
No but, ever since "the Schneier piece" [0] I've been thinking differently about this whole issue. It's about identifying you, and well, the store already knows exactly who you are as soon as you use your credit card. So does Amazon.com of course, though ironically they might not have an image of your face.
If you were going to that physical store and planning to use cash (or shoplift), THEN this affects you. Although even without "AI," you would still get captured on security cameras. So if your presence there became a matter of interest - let's say for example, to corroborate or debunk your alibi for a more serious crime elsewhere - someone would invest the time to identify your face the old-fashioned way. Like probably a subordinate of the senior detective on the case, watching hours of camera footage looking for you.
You can see how it was a series of small, slow, incremental steps, each one not necessarily big enough to create an uproar, that got us here.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/opinion/facial-recognitio...
No but, ever since "the Schneier piece" [0] I've been thinking differently about this whole issue. It's about identifying you, and well, the store already knows exactly who you are as soon as you use your credit card. So does Amazon.com of course, though ironically they might not have an image of your face.
If you were going to that physical store and planning to use cash (or shoplift), THEN this affects you. Although even without "AI," you would still get captured on security cameras. So if your presence there became a matter of interest - let's say for example, to corroborate or debunk your alibi for a more serious crime elsewhere - someone would invest the time to identify your face the old-fashioned way. Like probably a subordinate of the senior detective on the case, watching hours of camera footage looking for you.
You can see how it was a series of small, slow, incremental steps, each one not necessarily big enough to create an uproar, that got us here.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/opinion/facial-recognitio...