The Privacy Commissioner finds Bunnings Warehouse interfered with the privacy of its customers by using facial recognition without consent in 63 of its stores over a three-year period.
Apparently, Bunnings have my face on-file. I don’t think I like that.
I don’t think they were asking the cops to do anything, they just were refusing people service.
But I agree with your conclusion. If they weren’t using the data for commercial reasons, they were using it as a deniable trial to see what they could get away with.
Fucking Coles is using Palantir and has their checkout face cameras, so I suspect in the wake of this we’ll hear more about this sort of thing with other companies.
My example was to highlight how utterly ridiculous their ‘reasons’ for capturing the data in the first place were. Not to mention none of it would stand up in court as evidence. Bald faced lie
I don’t think they were asking the cops to do anything, they just were refusing people service.
But I agree with your conclusion. If they weren’t using the data for commercial reasons, they were using it as a deniable trial to see what they could get away with.
Fucking Coles is using Palantir and has their checkout face cameras, so I suspect in the wake of this we’ll hear more about this sort of thing with other companies.
My example was to highlight how utterly ridiculous their ‘reasons’ for capturing the data in the first place were. Not to mention none of it would stand up in court as evidence. Bald faced lie
Had no idea about this with Coles. Fark.