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

Re:7-Eleven breached customer privacy by collecting facial i... by reaperducer on Friday October 15, 2021 @04:06PM (#28882506)

Home Depot's newer all-in-one computers at the self-checkout include an embedded camera.

Makes me glad I never - ever - use self-checkout.

I'm not interested in helping replace human jobs with robots just so a bean counter in a boardroom somewhere can buy a second boat.

Occasionally, the self-checkout "team member" will come over to me while I'm standing in line and offer to help me use the self-checkout. I tell her, "I'd rather not help {$company} replace your job with a robot."

I expect a lot of times they think I'm a kook. But every once in a while they pause and I can see the realization washing over their faces. Then I feel like I've accomplished a small thing that day.

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Re:7-Eleven breached customer privacy by collecting facial i... by jobigoud on Sunday October 17, 2021 @04:00AM (#28894765)

Some highly repetitive jobs are better left to machines if we can. Every programmer is a farmer that has been automated out.

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Re:7-Eleven breached customer privacy by collecting facial i... by rytcio on Saturday October 16, 2021 @01:35AM (#28885786)

As someone who used to have that job, the only thing I was thinking when someone said that was: well it’s going to happen eventually, and I’m glad retail is not my career

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Re:7-Eleven breached customer privacy by collecting facial i... by thujlife on Saturday October 16, 2021 @01:10PM (#28889367)

Every line of code you write is a job automated.

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