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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.
@aral But isn´t it the "closeness" of the issue? Most people don´t recognize the issue on FB and when Google does it, so they don´t fear or worry about it as much. This, you can see, touch and easily understand. It´s "closer" to oneself.
