Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles…
Cort@lemmy.world 7 hours agoProbably 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.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yeah but Bluetooth cant tell walmart black shoppers are coming to raise the prices
Cort@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
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.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Yeah, that’s unfortunately the case, there is no such thing as privacy anymore