Sunder wrote: IBM to test people-sniffing.....<snip> At Red Herring's Venture Market East, last September, we saw a similar thing by a company called MIT Wearables. It involved a shoplifter type tag added to a convention badge. They were the darlings of the show. We liked it because of it's 3-D capabilities. But if you've been watching TV recently, there is this ad of a guy in a supermarket, looking like he is shoplifting, and is being recorded by all these surveillance cameras. Yet as he walks through a scanner (with no bells or lights going off), a security guard reminds him to get his receipt, in a friendly sort of way. For in this store shoplifting is 'impossible'. It sure appears to be more than tested already. Carol Anne Cypherpunk
