Surveillance Cameras Used To Study Customer Behavior 126
An anonymous reader writes "Technology Review reports on a startup with software used by stores to track, count and log people captured by security cameras. Prism Skylab's technology can produce heatmaps showing where people went and produce other statistics that the company claims offer tracking and analytics like those used online for the real world. One use case is for businesses to correlate online promotions and deals — such as Groupon offers — with real world footfall and in-store behavior."
Re:An Idea... (Score:3, Funny)
Notice to all Slashdotters (Score:5, Funny)
The Hentai row in the comic book store isn't as private as you think it is.
Re:Notice to all Slashdotters (Score:4, Funny)
Re:soon: citizens with rfid to be tracked by every (Score:4, Funny)
I think this story illustrates that the RFID is completely unnecessary.
True story: a local tv news station was busy showing off their latest scare-piece on RFID technology some months ago. The anchor phonetically pronounced it "ar-fid". *head-shake*