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Re:What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers' Habits (2004) by badrabbit on Monday August 13, 2018 @04:33AM (#17748748)
Purchase data sharing with 3rd parties and facial recognition,how rampant are they? And do you know anything about how they track cell phone's wifi mac as a customer goes around the store?
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Re:What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers' Habits (2004) by totallyashill on Monday August 13, 2018 @04:40AM (#17748771)
Data Sharing Agreements: None that I know of. That bit is a little out of my range.

Facial Recognition: Very, Very Little. Only in one store at the moment, and it's designed for Asset Protection and tracking a thief around the store.

As for tracking MAC addresses, we track Enterprise devices that associates use, but not customers.

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