Every time I drive in to my Tesco car park or the local retail park car park my registration number is taken by a camera. It is taken again when I exit.
Every time I walk in to any shop I am being recorded by CCTV. When I walk down the High Street I am being watched by someone using CCTV.
My phone company know who I call. Virgin know exactly what I am on watching and when on my tv. When we have compulsory smart meters the energy company will know when we turn the heating on. It is reasonable to expect them to be able to deduce when the house is unoccupied.
I suspect it'll be no different from the package of money off vouchers I get from Tesco every now and again, based on the stuff I've bought over previous weeks. Ludwig's probably right.
/// With the question of how we are tracked, privacy and the creeping 'Minority Report' aspect of this...I think it's justifiably not a 'non-story'.///
Interesting that a fellow ABer, posted these in a recent Daily Mail story about CCTV cameras at school gates.
/// Roll on more cameras, if they help to keep kids safe. Another non-story from the DM. ///
/// This is a complete non-story and you should have realised that. ///
/// Its just the DM banging on and on about a non-issue. ///
Don't you think that is a much more worthy story than one about facial recognition at petrol stations?
Well I do no matter who reported on it, because one can save lives and the other is just about unsavoury surveillance.
I am nearly sixty, but look forty, I am a heavy metal fan, I am tee-total, I don't enjoy football, I only ever seem to buy junk food, I go on cruises for my holidays, i can't remember the last time I went in a pub, I have never played a video game, and my gadget appreciation is less than zero.
So Tesco, record my physical image, which is about as far an indication of the person I am as it is possible to find.