Nor do the images of customers queuing to cancel their policies as far away as Singapore.
They are global symbols of fashion and sophistication, appealing to the idealized self-image of customers.
Some retailers, like Wal-Mart Stores, have already started taking images of customers' checks at the cash register, handing back the cancelled item, and processing the purchase electronically.
There's now a bar, with a bank of overhead monitors broadcasting images of customers who are captured on video as they spin through the restaurant's revolving door.
While Prism's technology removes the actual images of customers – something Crosbie says is "the right thing" to do – being tracked is still a hidden part of the shopping experience.
That initial contract was to layer different sunglasses onto scanned images of customers' faces, scaling the sunglasses to fit in a "try before you buy" feature.
It consists of connected layers that abstract the derivation of the output, the sentiment of a customer, for example, from the input, which might be an image of the customer or a chat transcript.
Using several aliases, he threatened to kill or sexually assault customers, going so far in one instance that he e-mailed an image of the customer's home, which had been obtained from Google maps.
Ms. McConnell has a very clear image of her customer.
"We came across this image of a customer, a madam and three prostitutes discussing prices, where you see the three naked women from behind," he said.
It would be simple to add to each transaction record an image of the customer taken by a digital camera on the front of the machine.
