Apparently, Bunnings have my face on-file. I don’t think I like that.
Hoo-fuckin-ray.
They destroy it but you have no authority of their backup overseas.
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!
“Protection against organised crime” my arse you could give the fucking cops footage of someone breaking into your house and raping your hamster while shouting their full name and address and they still wouldn’t do shit.
This is about floggable data
I don’t think they were asking the cops to do anything, they just were refusing people service.
But I agree with your conclusion. If they weren’t using the data for commercial reasons, they were using it as a deniable trial to see what they could get away with.
Fucking Coles is using Palantir and has their checkout face cameras, so I suspect in the wake of this we’ll hear more about this sort of thing with other companies.
@eraitch @zero_gravitas If you do use the self-checkouts there you can put a sticky dot over the camera as you approach it. They love it.
And their “AI” exit-gates on the self-checkout pen that shut if it doesn’t think it saw you paying can get in the sea too.
So ahhh, the massive fine?
Did they even get a wrist slap?
