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Yet another reason to avoid retailers now. They generally can’t compete on price, haven’t tried for years. Now they want to monitor me in ever more insidious wa
by Jkvngt 6y ago
Yet another reason to avoid retailers now. They generally can’t compete on price, haven’t tried for years. Now they want to monitor me in ever more insidious ways? It’s creepy and this data will all eventually be sold and aggregated by the data brokers.
- musingsole 6y agoThey're just playing catch-up with Amazon that has been able to monitor all the same behaviors to their hearts' content. If consumers give it up there, why not in person?
- sedgjh23 6y agoMakes sense, good way of framing it!
- ssss11 6y agoFrom a consumer point of view - if buying something worked fine in the old days without all this tracking that Amazon gets why does this happen now online(and apparently coming to retail)? No one “gave it up” - if you interviewed 1000 regular (non-HN) people I’d be very surprised if more than 10 (1%) knew the extent of modern day tracking. We can’t assume consent when people don’t know what is happening behind the scenes.
- ttraub 6y agoAccording to the article, this particular system doesn't monitor the shopper, but rather the movements of products as they are picked up and examined. They specifically say they don't use cameras.
- Jkvngt 6y agoThe slippery slope is real, though. We all know it by now.
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- toss1 6y agoAnd at least this group is specifically setting their crampons and climbing back up that slippery slope - they specifically said that the cameras capture TOO MUCH data This is more like an upgraded version the traffic counters with pneumatic hoses that have been used to count road traffic for many decades. they know how many vehicles go by (actually, how many axles), and when, but no idea who, but it still provides valuable information to the planners (I sometimes wondered if they were sufficiently sensitive to count bicycles).
- lazybreather 6y agoUnless you are completely off the internet, grow your own vegetables, sew your own clothes and so on... this comment doesn't make sense. We are giving extremely granular data every millisecond someone browses any ecom site. And you don't want to enter retail space because they monitor you? (Which they're not as stated in the article. They can only do anonymous tracking). Give me a break.
- Jkvngt 6y agoGood point - might as well reduce that when possible.