Pay a fee to Walmart if you listen

As BuzzFeed News notes, the most startling feature is the audio surveillance system’s ability to comprehend conversations and use them to assess an employee’s performance:“If however the performance metric is based on the content of the conversation (e.g., was a specific greeting used or script followed), the system can process the audio detected by the sound sensors 102 (e.g., using speech recognition) to determine the performance metric,” the patent description explains.

OK, we have a Walmart patent granted for listening to someone.  What is innovative here? Nothing except they used digital means to listen instead of analog.  So, if you or your ancestors ever listened on the phone while AT&T was digitizing the voice, then you will be sent a bill, for every conversation you had.

Just one of the myriad of reasons for  millennials to default.