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Geriatric Gardener

Creeping fascism - using Israeli spy technology perhaps?

“Breaking: Met Police installing permanent live facial recognition cameras”

by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox
@UKLabour

“Force slammed for racism, misogyny and homophobia, which serves police state and is stitching up anti-genocide protesters will soon be able to spy on you across the capital. What could go wrong?”

skwawkbox.org/2025/03/24/break

SKWAWKBOX · Breaking: Met Police installing permanent live facial recognition camerasForce slammed for racism, misogyny and homophobia, which serves police state and is stitching up anti-genocide protesters will soon be able to spy on you across the capital. What could go wrong? Th…
#Press#UK#Police
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Alberto Alpaka

@benroyce you might be interested to give »Marc Mac - The Invisible Soldiers« a listen:

marc4hero.bandcamp.com/album/t

Remarkable voice recordings of Black veterans serving during WWII, who were instrumental in liberating Europe from fascism while at the same time having to face discrimination and injustice at home.

These stories are powerful and deserve to be told.

Marc MacThe Invisible Soldiers, by Marc Mac21 track album
#BlackHistoryMonth#Recognition#LiberationFromFascism
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Chuck Darwin

Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and 13 colleagues wrote to the CEO of the supermarket behemoth #Kroger in November about electronic price tags (often called #electronic #shelf #labels or #ESLs ).
These digital displays allow companies to change prices automatically from a mobile app.
Tlaib warned that this so-called “#dynamic #pricing” permits retailers to adjust prices based on their whims.
Just as #Uber raises prices during storms or rush hour, retailers like Kroger use ESLs to adjust prices based on factors like time of day or the weather.
Supermarkets could conceivably mine a shopper’s personal data to set prices as high as possible.
“My concern is that these tools will be abused in the pursuit of profit, surging prices on essential goods in areas with fewer and fewer grocery stores,” Tlaib wrote.
In August, Senators Elizabeth #Warren and Bob #Casey wrote to Kroger raising similar concerns about #price #gouging.
Noting that the company has already implemented the technology in hundreds of stores across the county, they warned that
“ESLs may help Kroger extract maximum profits from consumers at a time when…high grocery prices are a leading concern among Americans who are concerned about inflation.”
Warren and Casey also voiced concern about Kroger’s partnership with Microsoft to install #facial-#recognition technology in stores,
which could be used to identify individual customers:
When a shopper approaches the shelf, she would see a price calibrated specifically for her.
The next shopper might pay a different amount based on their profile.
Retailers could use shopper data to charge higher prices to those who can afford to pay more, but since stores do not have to disclose who is making pricing decisions or why,
the senators worry that shoppers on a budget are particularly vulnerable.
“It is outrageous that, as families continue to struggle to pay to put food on the table, grocery giants like Kroger continue to roll out #surge #pricing and other corporate #profiteering schemes,” they wrote

thenation.com/article/society/

The Nation · Automation in Retail Is Even Worse Than You ThoughtNew technology is not just making shopping more challenging for workers and consumers—it’s poised to rip off the most vulnerable.
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Chuck Darwin

Amazon announced Thursday the launch of its new app for #Amazon #One,
its contactless #palm #recognition service that allows customers to hover their palm over a device in order to purchase from select places,
including more than 500 Whole Foods Market stores, Amazon stores and more than 150 third-party locations.
Instead of signing up for Amazon One at a physical retail location, users can now download the Amazon One app (available for iOS or Android devices) and take a photo of their palm right at home.
Once they create an online profile and add a payment method, the users’ palm is added to the system and can then be used for payment, entry, age verification and loyalty rewards at hundreds of stores, stadiums, airports, fitness centers and more

techcrunch.com/2024/03/28/amaz

TechCrunch · Amazon One launches new app to scan your palm for checkout | TechCrunchAmazon announced Thursday the launch of its new app for Amazon One, its contactless palm recognition service that allows customers to hover their palm Amazon announced the launch of its new app for Amazon One, its contactless palm recognition service.
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Rasta

I was just checking in on you..
#GoodMorning #Bonjour

I think I had my best sleep in weeks. It wasn't solid, but I fell back to sleep, after a trip to the bathroom downstairs, that never happens. So, around 5am, I got up.

Still a sky full of stars though. Sunrise is two coffees away.

I was thinking of something, I'm curious about what you think?

#Object #Recognition #Parts

You see a strange piece of plastic on the desk. How long before you guess what it is?
#WhatAmI

A flat rectangle of plastic with three lateral ribs, two slots are cut halfway the length between ribs, and a cylindrical pin on each side of the bottom end. Black, laying on wood
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