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Cash is still a thing.
by kchoudhu 8y ago
Cash is still a thing.
- kitotik 8y agonot 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.
- mieseratte 8y agoNever 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?
- forapurpose 8y agoAlso, 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.
- Cd00d 8y agoYou need to turn off bluetooth on your phone too.
- larkeith 8y agoHuh, I wonder if that means you should disable WiFi discovery too. Never thought I'd be that glad to be in the habit of mobile data only (not that there aren't problems there too...)
- astura 8y agoYes, WiFi discovery can be used to track to too.
- forapurpose 8y agoAny signal your phone emits with identifying information could be used. Why not your cellular signal?
- larkeith 8y agoI'm a lot less concerned about retail stores tracking me via cell signal, as it requires much more specialized hardware/software - meanwhile, it's likely feasible to modify extant in-store WiFi infrastructure to track that.