7-Eleven breached customer privacy by collecting facial imagery without consent

Re:7-Eleven breached customer privacy by collecting facial i... by alistairSH on Friday October 15, 2021 @12:58PM (#28880021)

Except that's not what 7-11 did here. They took photos from a tablet, as select customers were taking a survey.

Doing that without consent is still obnoxious, but a far cry from embedding a camera in the PoS terminal that captures everybody as they check-out. 7-11 might also do that, but it wasn't reported here.

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Re:7-Eleven breached customer privacy by collecting facial i... by sixothree on Friday October 15, 2021 @02:23PM (#28881155)

Ok. Firstly, whoever did that is one sick creep. Secondly, Why!? What value is added?

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Re:7-Eleven breached customer privacy by collecting facial i... by truemotive on Friday October 15, 2021 @11:47PM (#28885395)

the laziness of it all would be funny, if it didn’t indicate that people have to now be on the lookout at this casual of a level.

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Re:7-Eleven breached customer privacy by collecting facial i... by kjaftaedi on Friday October 15, 2021 @02:50PM (#28881526)

They did it with consent.

The issue is that regardless of whether the users gave consent, their actions still ran afoul of Australian law.

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Re:7-Eleven breached customer privacy by collecting facial i... by theteapot on Friday October 15, 2021 @04:06PM (#28882512)

There was no consent. I've done that "survey". No idea my photo was being taken or that there was even a camera.

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