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Advertising That Watches You, Too

Posted February 02, 2009 8:58 AM

From The Globe and Mail - Technology News:

Watch an advertisement on a video screen in a mall, health club or grocery store and there's a slim - but growing - chance the ad is watching you too. Small cameras can now be embedded in the screen or hidden around it, tracking who looks at the screen and for how long. The makers of the tracking systems say the software can determine the viewer's gender, approximate age range and, in some cases, ethnicity - and can change the ads accordingly.

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Re: Advertising That Watches You, Too

02/02/2009 11:02 AM

That's it. I'm only going to go out in drag from now on. With a fake mustache. And clown makeup.

Let's see 'em try to figure that demographic out.

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Re: Advertising That Watches You, Too

02/03/2009 12:18 AM

ALSO THE CREDIT CARD COMPANYS WILL RAISE YOUR RATE OR LOWER YOUR CREDIT LIMIT IF YOU SHOP WHERE PEOPLE THAT HAVE PROBLEMS PAYING THEIR BILLS SHOP.

SO TELL THE WIFE TO BECAREFUL ABOUT TRYING TO CATCH SALES IN STORES SHE HAS NEVER BEEN TOO.

BEHAVIORAL DATA MINING IS ON THE RISE.

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02/03/2009 8:05 AM

Technology is close to produce an image with the power to control people, as written in the book of revelations. It simply have to be solved the frame problem, so it will be difficult to differentiate between a computational model of a real image.

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