Apparently, Bunnings have my face on-file. I don’t think I like that.
Ah, perfect. Another corporation shits on your rights and this time they don’t even get a “cost-of-doing-business” fine.
if just one person could be protected from trauma the use of facial recognition would be “justifiable”.
Funny how gov & corpo’s frame all their crimes as “for your protection”.
“The electronic data was never used for marketing purposes or to track customer behaviour,” Mr Schneider said.
I’d be willing to bet all that I own this is either a complete lie, or by omission.
Commissioner Kind said she didn’t think Bunnings deserved to be financially penalised as they had good intentions when they rolled out the technology and were cooperative with the investigation.
Ahh. If only every criminal received leniency for “good intentions”.
Example# 12753974 that we live in corporate plutocracies masquerading as “democracy”, and there is a separate rule of law for the wealthy/corporations.
But don’t worry, I’m sure the neolibs across LabLib will legalise these violations soon enough — maybe you’ll need to scan your digital GovID™️ to enter any store; for your protection, ofcourse!
