Aral BalkanMay 11, 2017

This is a photo of a crashed kiosk advertising the menu and offers at a popular Norwegian pizza restaurant chain. It shows that the kiosk was running facial recognition and basic sentiment analysis on the people looking at it.

Based on the number of people who sent me this on Twitter, it’s clear that people care and are unhappy with corporate surveillance.

The worst bit? Compared to what Google and Facebook do daily and at scale, this is a toy.

https://mastodon.ar.al/media/OFTGkS78V6DEAm2KkZU

Show threadFrankie SaxxMay 11, 2017

@aral
@gcupc I don't know about laws in Norway, but I assume these types of billboards in Sweden operate the same way, with public facing cameras aggregating metrics, which makes me wonder if they fall foul of our camera license laws.

http://www.lansstyrelsen.se/Stockholm/En/manniska-och-samhalle/kameraovervakning/Pages/default.aspx

Show threadLrsMay 11, 2017
@frankiesaxx Not sure about it, but I want to do some digging about it after seeing this. I think it's not allowed without a clear notice about what's recorded, at least, but I'll try to find out.
Show threadFrankie SaxxMay 11, 2017
@lrshdl Yeah, I'm not sure how it would be applied in Sweden, I don't know if it has to save or transmit the images to be covered.
Show threadLrsMay 11, 2017
@frankiesaxx Ok, it's an interesting question, though. The privacy laws in Norway had traditionally been kind of strict in Norway, favoring people and consumers, so that's why I'm a bit curious about this case. I'll toot about it when I find out.
Show threadFrankie SaxxMay 11, 2017
@lrshdl I'll keep an eye out for it. :)
Show threadLrs

@frankiesaxx It's not very allowed in this setting, as I thought. 😊

https://www.datatilsynet.no/Teknologi/Kameraovervaking/Hvilke-omrader-kan-overvakes/?showContentList=true&showDetailedContentList=false&readMode=false

May 12, 2017 at 8:13amWeb