From the checkout at Target, to your Facebook account, browsing the Internet or even just walking on a city street— credit cards are being swiped, messages are being shared, and cameras are recording. So are the rules of how businesses use your data fair and respectful of your privacy? This is a Reality Check you won't get anywhere else.
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The latest way of collecting data is to offer shoppers an App which they can use to scan items as they shop and go through a cashier-less check-out process. It has been offered at Target and Sam's Club in my experience.
Yeah, for the folks who claim "I don't have anything to hide so, I don't care". Those people are full of junk. Just ask them if they have locks on their doors or if they use passwords when they say " yes" ask them if you can have them & post them all over the internet. Even beyond that, if you don't have something to hide...you are living your life wrong! I'm of the convection that if you're not on a "government" watch list, you are an enemy of liberty. I'll use this quote to illustrate my point, "YOU have no enemies, you say?
Alas! my friend, the boast is poor;
He who has mingled in the fray
Of duty, that the brave endure,
Must have made foes! If you have none,
Small is the work that you have done.
You’ve hit no traitor on the hip,
You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip,
You’ve never turned the wrong to right,
You’ve been a coward in the fight."
English Chartist Charles Mackey, poet, 1814–1889). So get out there & challenge evil, make some enemies, have something to hide.
No, your personal data is not safe online. No if's, and's, or but's about about it. Any centralized database that houses personally identifiable information, spending habits or anything else about you that can be correlated, is technically not safe.
Why do you think I'm wearing a mask? :)
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STOP"Amazon employees have been test driving Amazon Go, an experimental convenience store in downtown Seattle. The idea is to let consumers walk in, pick up items and then pay for them without ever standing in line at a cashier."
"Shoppers visiting an Amazon Go store will scan their smartphones upon entering. Cameras and shelf sensors will then work together to figure out which items have been removed and who removed them, the person says; there will be no need for tracking devices, such as radio frequency chips, embedded in the merchandise. When shoppers leave, algorithms will total the order and bill their Amazon account."
Now just imagine this being the standard along with a social crediting system, like the one being used in China. Become an unfavorable individual and get locked out. Add the capability of facial recognition coupled with the facial recognition glasses being employed by Chinese police, and it begins to become apparent how this collected data can be used.
Black Mirror had an episode in which the topic of social crediting was explored. It's worth the watch, if you enjoy that sort of thing.
The UK has better laws regarding privacy????!!! That says a lot.