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simulator5glast Wednesday at 8:50 PM1 replyview on HN

Just shopping in the store and lingering by those products for a few moments is enough for the algorithm to detect a possible pregnancy. They use Bluetooth beacons & camera software to see how long you look at everything in the store.


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Larrikinlast Thursday at 4:12 AM

Facial recognition may be possible. BLE beacons were a useful technology that is dead now because even ten years ago it was being abused for this. It's fully blocked without a ton of jumping through hoops.