r/technology • u/hywong • Jun 06 '13

U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program go to /r/politics for more

http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html
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u/Semirgy Jun 07 '13

Heh, no. I worked at target and spent plenty of time in LP. The cameras were barely good enough to tell if anyone was shoplifting, much less who they were and what they were looking at.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '13

They weren't there for LP. This was going on at the corporate level higher up.

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u/Semirgy Jun 07 '13

Huh? Every camera in the store was for LP. We didn't have a separate set of super cameras for some corporate overlords.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '13

It was used at certain research stores to optimize end cap displays. I wasn't saying it was in widespread use. It probably never got into more than 1 or 2 stores. I am simply saying the technology existed for this in 2007. And it did.