There is a difference between doing well and becoming China in terms of surveillance. Most of our revenue were from just plain head counting and from tracking cars in a smart city project.
The one face rec system we actually sold was used to measure waiting times in a retail setting, and replaced an existing system that was using AWS Rekognition in the same manner, except with all the video footage going to the cloud. That license has long expired and the system is no longer running.
In any case, what is stated in the app's privacy statement is what we are doing. At the moment I don't even collect the IP addresses of users connecting.
Thanks for your honest answers Jacob, and the good spirit to do so in
public. This kind of discussion really helps with the topics I am
researching (and btw if I mention this or anyone else from HN in the
text it will always be in a non-identifying way). Good luck with your
project.
The one face rec system we actually sold was used to measure waiting times in a retail setting, and replaced an existing system that was using AWS Rekognition in the same manner, except with all the video footage going to the cloud. That license has long expired and the system is no longer running.
In any case, what is stated in the app's privacy statement is what we are doing. At the moment I don't even collect the IP addresses of users connecting.