Tesco is watching you

Fred Swanson

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Banjo String

Every Lidl helps.

jimgoose

Yes, every so often I'm reminded why I have no truck with Tesco. This would be more of it. I mean for FUCK sake can we not have a bloody supermarket that isn't a hybrid of OCP Corporation and Skynet?? :mad:

dgt

So this is how your face ends up on "local products"

Iphone 5s on Tesco mobile anyone....?

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

I say a hundred or so people go in wearing balaclavas

The_B_Man

Sure I don't care as long as they don't start storing my data.

We're exposed to ads every day. I'd rather see ads for beer and sport, than for fanny pads and blouses.

DrumSteve

Isn't that only in england?

Gran Hermano

Does this mean if you walk in wearing a balaclava to perform an armed robbery they'll think it's a burka and show you adverts for halal meals?

TheChizler

The_B_Man wrote: »

Sure I don't care as long as they don't start storing my data.

We're exposed to ads every day. I'd rather see ads for beer and sport, than for fanny pads and blouses.

That's exactly it, they're not storing the information, and the legal ramifications would be extreme if it turned out they were. It (sometimes) determines gender by examining length of hair and narrowness of the nose etc. It's conceptually no different to an automatic door sensor which only lets in objects over a certain height (no animals etc), just more sophisticated.

minotour

Gran Hermano wrote: »

Does this mean if you walk in wearing a balaclava to perform an armed robbery they'll think it's a burka and show you adverts for halal meals?

In theory yes, you can influence the boards by your appearance. In general Im all for this kind of thing, advertising is a necessary evil, we may as well be force d to look at ads of some relevance. imagine never again having to sit through yer wan screaming "OOOohhh boooddyyform for youuuuuuuuu..." at least for us lads anyway.


Full disclosure, i have a vested interest in this kind of tech, sorry

treeoflife145

I can't imagine what kind of stuff they'll have in 100 years...

IvaBigWun

Is anyone else getting an ad at the top of this thread for "iris and face scan" systems?

:eek:



No. Seriously.

anncoates

If they target subliminal ads at me for something I want to buy it, I'll buy it.

I doubt an ad will make me suddenly buy something I don't want to.

It's like one of these issues that always appear to be if far more concern to hippies, students and conspiracy theorists more than normal people.

sammyjo90

nope mines for alpro yogurt..must be just you

Fred Swanson

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jimgoose

anncoates wrote: »

If they target subliminal ads at me for something I want to buy it, I'll buy it.

I doubt an ad will make me suddenly buy something I don't want to.

It's like one of these issues that always appear to be if far more concern to hippies, students and conspiracy theorists more than normal people.

Oh Lisa, that's a load of rich creamery butter!

minotour

TheChizler wrote: »

That's exactly it, they're not storing the information, and the legal ramifications would be extreme if it turned out they were. It (sometimes) determines gender by examining length of hair and narrowness of the nose etc. It's conceptually no different to an automatic door sensor which only lets in objects over a certain height (no animals etc), just more sophisticated.

Eventually they will see the value of storing the data though, as will we the punters. Loyalty programmes which automatically apply discounts, identifying known shoplifters/nuisances, frictionless payments are only some of the benefits. However that will absolutely require facial or retinal recognition which as you rightly point out would lead to a legal circus........one where only the lawyers are doing well......sounds familiar.

AnonoBoy

anncoates wrote: »

I doubt an ad will make me suddenly buy something I don't want to.

Course not.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_IPcNivyQg

Akrasia

It'll be funny when Linda Martin gets bombarded with ads for Gillette Mach 3

Mongarra

It is to choose what ads to show at the till. I don't shop much at Tesco and seldom at their petrol pumps so it won't bother me but, even if I did buy petrol regularly there, I wouldn't imagine I spend long enough at the till paying for the petrol to watch a full advertisement.

minotour

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Is anyone else getting an ad at the top of this thread for "iris and face scan" systems at the top of this thread?

:eek:



No. Seriously.

i get that too, its the new TD100 from Irisid, leading Iris recognition company. It may be because you read that article

Gran Hermano

Only a matter of time before they start linking the facial recognition to your clubcard number and linking it to the phone in your pocket picking up their free wifi to understand which parts of the shop you visited and which products you looked at.

Fred Swanson

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SEPT 23 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nxsmuie8y4

Akrasia

Gran Hermano wrote: »

Only a matter of time before they start linking the facial recognition to your clubcard number and linking it to the phone in your pocket picking up their free wifi to understand which parts of the shop you visited and which products you looked at.

Its a slippery slope i tells ya

Do Tesco bar people from their shops for shop lifting?
If they have face recognition software, how long will it be before they start cross referencing your face against a list of barred customers?

Fred Swanson

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foxyboxer

Companies will always target consumers.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/

Jonny Blaze

jimgoose wrote: »

Yes, every so often I'm reminded why I have no truck with Tesco. This would be more of it. I mean for FUCK sake can we not have a bloody supermarket that isn't a hybrid of OCP Corporation and Skynet?? :mad:

YOU MUST SHOP AT TESCO... YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY!

theblaqueguy

There working on behalf of the US government for the NSA its all part of their new spying plan
You heard it here first people
You have been warned!

mr kr0nik

Sure they're already doing it in other ways...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3634141/They-have-ways-of-making-you-spend.html

"Most people are familiar with the supermarket bread trick. Stores know that sales increase when shoppers are hungry and so they waft warm bakery smells through the air-conditioning system."

Savoir.Faire

Still wouldn't come close to the amount of information facebook and google are hoovering up on people. Privacy is becoming an increasingly vague concept.

looksee

I do not like the questions on the new google+ so I am managing without a home page. Its no hardship I have discovered

Jonny Blaze

minotour wrote: »

i get that too, its the new TD100 from Irisid, leading Iris recognition company. It may be because you read that article

Try installing adblock plus and ghostery for firefox.

Ghostery shows you all the trackers tracking you on each page you go to and blocks them, while adblock just.. well blocks ads!

I actually cannot use the internet without these anymore since there are always ten thousand squiggling bouncing, glittering animated adverts on every page without them!

kitnan

We do live in an Orwellian time. I can't see it getting any better, I think the problem is complacency.

Mark Twain

Its not going to affect the majority of customers. The target audience will continue to shop there.

The only people who give a continental will be conspiracy cranks, dole cheats and petty criminals.

This will just drive Jacinta 'dole fraud' Murphy and Aido 'car-radio thief' O' Keefe to buy their cheap beer and corn snacks from Lidl instead of Tesco. No loss.

ScumLord

It's all fun and games until the first heavy metal fan starts getting ads for menopause pills.

What if it start blaring out tampon commercials every time it sees someone with long hair pull up in a bad mood?

It would be as intrusive as a person taking one look at you and deciding you need a product to make you better. It would be like walking past a hair salon and the hairdresser running out and offering to sell you some shampoo. You'd automatically take it as an insult.

mad turnip

ScumLord wrote: »

It's all fun and games until the first heavy metal fan starts getting ads for menopause pills.

What if it start blaring out tampon commercials every time it sees someone with long hair pull up in a bad mood?

It would be as intrusive as a person taking one look at you and deciding you need a product to make you better. It would be like walking past a hair salon and the hairdresser running out and offering to sell you some shampoo. You'd automatically take it as an insult.

They wouldn't notice any difference because at the moment we already see them, just when they implement this "update" the more regular people won't see these ad's. It will be like nothing has changed =D

diomed

The technology, made by Lord Sugar's digital signage company Amscreen, will use a camera to identify a customer's gender and approximate age.
It will then show an advertisement tailored to that demographic.

I don't want to be at the checkout and then hear loudspeakers blaring -
"Did you forget to buy your adult nappies, love?"

Mint Aero

I dont see the f**king point. I haven't read an ad in years. Go on, go on tesco that's fine. You do your face scanning thing go on I dare ya, customize ads to my age and gender, yeah that's great tesco. I still won't view or acknowledge the existence of your stupid ads. At the till now is it? is that the new thing is it tesco? I'd be too busy at making sure I'm not being short changed than to be looking at some goofy gimmick designed by a toffee nosed snot bag.

Hande hoche!

theblaqueguy wrote: »

There working on behalf of the US government for the NSA its all part of their new spying plan
You heard it here first people
You have been warned!

I vaguely recall Chicago town pizza being a front for the NSA.