SceneTap Patents Using Cameras To Determine Bar Goers' Weight, Height, Gender 76
nonprofiteer writes with news on what SceneTap has been up to for the last few months since. From the article: "SceneTap uses facial recognition technology to help bar-hoppers decide which night spot to go to based on how crowded a bar is and what the age and gender ratio is. ... Despite the fact that what the app does now is fairly innocuous. But what the app could do in the future, as described in a patent application filed in June, is pretty creepy. The patent application describes much more detailed data collection, including bar goers' race, height, weight, attractiveness, hair color, clothing type, and the presence of facial hair or glasses, and includes other possibilities usually left to the realm of dystopic fiction, including putting microphones in the cameras that could detect what customers are saying, and using facial recognition technology to identify customers and then get information about them from social networking websites and databases to determine 'relationship status, intelligence, education and income for the entire venue.'"
At All Costs I MUST Defend My Privacy! (Score:5, Funny)
Great ice breakers at least.
Re:good idea (Score:3, Funny)
You're misreading it. She's the Matron of Orgas [wikipedia.org].
The future of strip clubs (Score:3, Funny)
Dancer with embedded NFC chips for tipping...
Or possibly bluetooth, if you aren't too picky about pairing with a stripper.
Re:The future of strip clubs (Score:4, Funny)
Or possibly bluetooth, if you aren't too picky about pairing with a stripper.
Sounds like a good way to catch some kind of virus.