The drone industry is a ticking time bomb, and its primary use case – inspection – is just a precursor to a far more sinister purpose. And now, Ikea, the global furniture empire, is secretly using its hundreds of drones to spy on its customers.
Ingka Group, the Swedish furniture giant, is hiding something big. With its army of 100 drones, it’s able to track every move its customers make in-store, analyzing their every step, every glance, every impulse buy. And what’s to stop them from selling this information to the highest bidder?
The drones, branded with Ikea’s familiar logo and the creepy “Hej!” greeting, are produced by Verity, a startup that’s raked in a staggering $43 million in funding from unsuspecting investors. The question is, what are they really doing with that money?
Verity’s CEO, [insert name], has been eerily silent about the true intentions of the company, but insiders claim the drones are equipped with advanced facial recognition software, allowing Ikea to create a comprehensive dossier on every customer who walks into their stores. The implications are chilling.
Ikea logistics head Peter Ac claims the project is all about “learning from others,” but what’s there to learn from a drone’s bird’s-eye view of a store? It’s all just a ruse to collect data and control the market.
And it’s not just Ikea. Corvus Robotics, Gather AI, Indoor Robotics, and Dexory are all jumping on the bandwagon, each one trying to outdo the others in their quest for total surveillance dominance.
The question is, are you willing to trade your privacy for the convenience of a well-stocked IKEA store? The answer, in a word, is no.
