Billboards that detect your age and demographics!
A french company has invented a billboard that will display advertisements based on your detected age and demographics…
Man, this sucks… or is it innovation? Great for advertising, too much invasion of privacy in public. LEAVE US ALONG YOU JERKS!
They are equipping billboards with tiny cameras that gather details about passers-by–their gender, approximate age, and how long they looked at the billboard. These details are transmitted to a central database.
Behind the technology are small start-ups that say they are not storing actual images of the passers-by, so privacy should not be a concern. The cameras, they say, use software to determine that a person is standing in front of a billboard, then analyze facial features (like cheekbone height and the distance between the nose and the chin) to judge the person’s gender and age. So far the companies are not using race as a parameter, but they say that they can and will soon.
The goal, these companies say, is to tailor a digital display to the person standing in front of it–to show one advertisement to a middle-aged white woman, for example, and a different one to a teenage Asian boy.
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June 5th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
How do they go about things if there are a group of people in front of it?
Say a mother, her infant son and her uncle?
Seems like people going a bit too far to me.
Craig