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Title: The Facebook camera that can recognise you every time you walk into a shop
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Daily Mail
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet ... ok-picture-time-walk-shop.html
Published: Aug 14, 2012
Author: Mark Prigg
Post Date: 2012-08-14 00:42:42 by A K A Stone
Keywords: None
Views: 3617
Comments: 14
Shoppers could soon be automatically recognised when they walk into a shop using a controversial new camera. Called Facedeals, the camera uses photos uploaded to Facebook to recognise people as they walk in. Shoppers who agree to use the system, which has not been developed with Facebook, will be offered special deals. A promotional video created to promote the concept shows drinkers entering a bar, and then being offerend cheap drinks as they are recognised. 'Facebook check-ins are a powerful mechanism for businesses to deliver discounts to loyal customers, yet few businesses—and fewer customers—have realized it,' said Nashville-based advertising agency Redpepper. They are already trialling the scheme in firms close to their office. 'A search for businesses with active deals in our area turned up a measly six offers. 'The odds we’ll ever be at one of those six spots are low (a strip club and photography studio among them), and the incentives for a check-in are not nearly enticing enough for us to take the time. 'So we set out to evolve the check-in and sweeten the deal, making both irresistible. 'We call it Facedeals.' Facebook recently hit the headlines when it bought face.com, an Israeli firm that pioneered the use of face recognition technology online. The social networking giant uses the software to recognise people in uploaded pictures, allowing it to accurately spot friends. The Facebook camera requires people to have authorised the Facedeals app through their Facebook account. This verifies your most recent photo tags and maps the biometric data of your face. The system then learns what a user looks like as more pictures are approved. This data is then used to identify you in the real world. In a demonstration video, the firm behind the camera showed it being used to offer free drinks to customers if they signed up to the system.
Poster Comment: Yeah it requires you to log in. But what about next year and the year after. Does it still require you to log in then? No they will be watching you. Get the F off Faceshit. There is a video at the source for anyone intersted.
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The mark of the Beast will be in the palm (iPhone) or on the forehead (facebook). You will not be able to buy or sell without it. - Ami, Boston, USA, 14/8/2012 03:25 Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2187801/Were-watching-The-camera-recognise-Facebook-picture-time-walk-shop.html#ixzz23UbGo4N1
Oh please... 40 years ago I read some nut preacher saying that the "beast" is a mainframe computer in Belgium. 30 years ago I read another nut preacher saying that the "mark of the beast" are barcodes. 20 years ago, yet another loony tunes preacher said that the World Wide Web (www) was the "mark of the beast". 10 years ago it was RFID. Now of course, it's Facebook and mobile phones. This is all nothing but anti-technology, Luddite hogwash. If and when the "mark of the beast" does come, almost no one will recognize it for what it is.
I don't believe facebook or your Iphone is the mark. I believe it is something that will be put in your hand like a microchip. It has to be in your right hand or forehead. It has to be required for buying and selling. It has to also have a religious component in it. The worship of the Beast.
#14. To: A K A Stone (#12)
It has to be in your right hand or forehead. The technology already exists to uniquely identify you by your finger prints, your hand geometry (the bone structure of your hand), or by the capillaries in your retinas. We don't need an implant.
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The mark of the Beast will be in the palm (iPhone) or on the forehead (facebook). You will not be able to buy or sell without it.
#12. To: jwpegler (#4)
Replies to Comment # 12. I believe it is something that will be put in your hand like a microchip.
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