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Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by kitotik on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:35PM (#17567958)
not just at the point of sale though. from license plate scanning in the parking lot, to facial recognition and traffic analysis in the store, modern brick and mortar retail is not far behind e-commerce when it comes to privacy intrusions to collect data.
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Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by forapurpose on Friday July 20, 2018 @06:59PM (#17579671)
Also, you are probably bringing your phone into the store, and it's emitting all sorts of identifying info. I've read about businesses selling tech that uses that info to identify you and uses the signal to track where you go in the store.
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Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by mieseratte on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:28PM (#17568567)
Never thought riding a bike and wearing a hat would help me out in the privacy department.

Do they usually have cameras at the face-level or just eye-in-the-sky cameras?

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