A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system

Post by wapz » Thu, May 11, 2017, 1:05 AM UTC

logicallee wrote: post #30

derefr wrote: post #26

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You could distinguish people who are married or are parents (with false negatives) by recording people who are at the till with their spouse or children. (Send out demographic-research cards once, to a few of the same stores you've collected this info from, to derive a normalization factor that will make such collected observations useful from then on.) You could make a note of a person's seeming affect—positive/nega…

I'm asking historically what was actually done, not what could be done. (For, "what could be done" you could ask if the cashier had seen this person before? Are they a regular shopper here, as far as the cashier notices?) I am asking what information cashiers in Japan actually in fact recorded by hand. What did these cards look like for each customer. Etc.

Post by anabis » Thu, May 11, 2017, 1:06 AM UTC

logicallee wrote: post #30

derefr wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could distinguish people who are married or are parents (with false negatives) by recording people who are at the till with their spouse or children. (Send out demographic-research cards once, to a few of the same stores you've collected this info from, to derive a normalization factor that will make such collected observations useful from then on.) You could make a note of a person's seeming affect—positive/nega…

I'm asking historically what was actually done, not what could be done. (For, "what could be done" you could ask if the cashier had seen this person before? Are they a regular shopper here, as far as the cashier notices?) I am asking what information cashiers in Japan actually in fact recorded by hand. What did these cards look like for each customer. Etc.

Post by logicallee » Thu, May 11, 2017, 1:12 AM UTC

anabis wrote: post #33

logicallee wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm asking historically what was actually done, not what could be done. (For, "what could be done" you could ask if the cashier had seen this person before? Are they a regular shopper here, as far as the cashier notices?) I am asking what information cashiers in Japan actually in fact recorded by hand. What did these cards look like for each customer. Etc.

Image of actual buttons used added to the original post. Keep in mind this has to be done while doing usual cashier things, so not much attention can be taken up by it.

Post by Freeboots » Thu, May 11, 2017, 1:16 AM UTC

Post by punk_coder » Thu, May 11, 2017, 1:20 AM UTC

cyberferret wrote: post #32

anabis wrote: post #19

In Japan at least, before automated facial recognition, cashiers recorded buyer demographics by hand. I would think other places do it too. Edit: Here is what the buttons look like. Gender and age. https://image.slidesharecdn.com/hvc-c-android-prototype20141...

In a few stores here in Australia, I am asked for my post code (or country of residence if no post code) by the cashier when ringing up a sale. Predominantly at tourist/tour related points of sale, but I've also had it an electronics and white goods stores. No idea if the operator is also recording gender and perceived age group etc., but I do know that on most occasions, you can opt not to answer the post code quest…