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Biometric Data Privacy: Walmart Keeps 512 Face Numbers

CaraComp · 4 weeks ago

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Biometric data privacy audits reveal how stores delete raw photos while permanently keeping mathematical face vectors in surveillance systems. A surveillance camera converts facial geometry into a 512-dimensional numerical template to track individuals across visits. Deleting the original image file does not erase the underlying vector representation from the database. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT TO LOOK FOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Retail surveillance systems convert…

This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of CaraComp, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.