And a whole lot more. Remember way back when this stuff was just for catching "terrorists?"
"Attention sticky-fingered shoppers: They see you; Technology drives Target’s tough-minded antitheft operation" by Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff / December 10, 2011
WESTBOROUGH - Suspected of stealing money from registers, the Target employee was being secretly monitored as she scanned in customers’ purchases last Tuesday. But the security specialists watching the cashier weren’t anywhere near the New York discount store where she works - they were hundreds of miles away in Westborough, conducting the electronic surveillance from a small, windowless room that is home to the Target Investigations Center....
Security technicians are on duty 24 hours a day, surveying thousands of high-tech cameras....
Hey, who cut off the camera?
--NOMORE--"
The really important things you might have seen is that CVS is preparing to add facial recognition technology, and the observation that retail criminals steal from everyone. When I read that I thought, "Hey, those criminals are just like banks!"
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