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Behind a fence topped with razor wire just off U.S. Highway 71 is a bunker of a building that Wal-Mart considers so secret that it won't even let the county assessor inside without a nondisclosure agreement.
The 125,000-square-foot building, tucked behind a new Wal-Mart Supercenter, is only a stone's throw from the Arkansas line and about 15 miles from corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Ark.
There is nothing about the building to give even a hint that Wal-Mart owns it.
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"We were contacted about two years ago by somebody who runs a security company that had been asked in a request for proposals for ways they could link video footage with customers paying for their purchases," Albrecht said. "Wal-Mart would actually be able to view photos and video of customers paying, say, for a pack of gum. At the time, it struck me as unbelievably outlandish because of the amount of data storage required."
Originally posted by HothSnake1
We know that it is an information data storage facility... That is easy enough, but the question is what kind of data?? From the testimony of the above inquiry by Wal-mart, we know that at least part of this data will entail keeping files complete with photos on all customers. That is scary to say the least, especially when this is the largest company in the world that is doing it. So, everyone else is doing something similar? Most of these transnational corporations are run by the same banksters. I just don't like my photo being associated with criminals who happen to shop at Wal-mart, simply because that is where I shop.. The police already have way too much arbitrary power to over us as it is.. They don't need any more tools to help them entrap and frame innocent civilians... They have plenty already.
Originally posted by HothSnake1
Unfortunately, I doubt that common citizens and customers will have access to this information.. It will be on a need to know basis, and they can easily lie about it... I know because I've been lied to about it by managers at Walmart.. My vehicle was broken into on their parking lot.. I asked to see the camera footage and they told me that there wasn't any.. I could see cameras all up and down the parking lot, and I know for a fact that they use them to bust shop lifters. They told me to call the police about it.. I was too tired and pissed off at the time to go to that amount of trouble (nothing was broken and nothing appeared to be missing) so I gave it up..
The fact is that this technology will benefit those that paid for it and control it, which is not you or me. It is wishful thinking though..