Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles…
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 5 hours agoProbably billed as anti theft. Likely some form of surge pricing
Probably also a way to track items on the shelves for inventory and ordering. Potentially a way to make sure employees and straightened up the isles/products at the end of the day.
Probably not for surge pricing, they already do all the tracking with Bluetooth for the most part since everyone always has their phone and no longer turns off Bluetooth to save battery.
Yeah but Bluetooth cant tell walmart black shoppers are coming to raise the prices
Please don’t doubt that their Bluetooth database links your Mac address to a wide variety of socioeconomic data gathered from thousands of third-party providers. They don’t need the cameras to know who’s black or rich or a 4 year old on an old Wi-Fi only iPhone riding in a shopping cart. The cameras certainly help, but they’re not required for surveillance pricing.
Yeah, that’s unfortunately the case, there is no such thing as privacy anymore
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 5 hours ago
Also facial recognition, eye tracking, body language analysis - creating the glass shopper, selling the data for peanuts while violating any decency. Legislation is so far behind the current reality that it isn’t even funny anymore.
Janx@piefed.social 5 hours ago
The last federally-passed privacy law concerned video store workers not sharing what VHS tapes you rent. Because it was the 80’s…
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 hours ago
They could do it like Minority Report where it scans you as you grab the item and automatically withdraw the money from your bank account. Tho it’s not gonna be reliable, so they’re just gonna be stealing your money just walking by the shelf sometimes.