Privacy

50695 readers

786 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

In store surveillance (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by Dust0741@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

6 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Anyone know any specific about this device? I cannot find a manufacturer or anything.

Its about 0.5m wide, and maybe half that thick.

There are wifi AP's also, and a few cameras in the store. But there are more of these dishes than cameras and AP's combined.

I know stores do bluetooth tracking through stores, but this device is way to big for that. Also wifi makes little sense given the AP's elsewhere. High powered RFID for monitoring pieces of merchandise maybe?

top 6 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] davad@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

RFID tracking would be my first guess. If you want to know where a tag is, you need multiple readers. Are they roughly in a grid pattern?

A second guess, are there e-ink tags in this store? These might be repeaters for programming those.

[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Bingo. Looks like RFID based inventory tracking from a company called RADAR

[–] Dust0741@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yes roughly a grid.

No e-ink tags.

The tags all have barcodes, but also RFID

[–] orange_narange@lemmy.org 3 points 3 months ago

Yep, sounds like a RFID scannee

[–] ag10n@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Likely something like this

https://www.fresh222.com/loss-prevention-system-for-retail-stores-and-warehouses/

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 8 points 3 months ago

Could just be used to program digital price tags on the shelves, I've installed similar looking devices in stores years ago.