{"id":111,"date":"2004-09-08T11:19:37","date_gmt":"2004-09-08T15:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=111"},"modified":"2004-09-08T11:25:04","modified_gmt":"2004-09-08T15:25:04","slug":"the-nsa-says-you-want-a-big-mac-suptmsup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"The NSA says you want a Big Mac <sup> TM <\/sup>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day has now come where individual profiling can now reach every corner and facet of our waking lives.  First people were worried about the implementation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/Privacy\/cappsii\/\">CAPPS II<\/a>, whereby mere profiling of who you are and how you made your travel plans will determine whether the federal government thinks you could be a terrorist.  Now, the same profiling technology will be used by fast food chains to determine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesleader.com\/mld\/timesleader\/9602592.htm\">what you will eat before you order it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe system, known as &#8220;HyperActive Bob,&#8221; is in place in several restaurants around Pittsburgh in a primitive form: It tells employees when they are about to get busy, even how much food to put on the grill. <\/p>\n<p>The system uses rooftop cameras that monitor traffic entering a restaurant&#8217;s parking lot and drive-thru. Currently, the system is all about volume: If a minivan pulls in, there&#8217;s apt to be more than one mouth to feed.<\/p>\n<p>By this time next year, HyperActive Technologies expects to have in place software that keys on the type of vehicle entering the parking lot to determine whether the customers they bear are inclined to order, say, a burger over a chicken sandwich.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can they predict I won&#8217;t be eating any Whoppers anytime soon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New surveillance technology predicts what you will order in a  fast food restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}