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Then we can stop going to stores and shop more online, since another upside of bricks-and-mortar is gone.
by blagie 5y ago
Then we can stop going to stores and shop more online, since another upside of bricks-and-mortar is gone.
- celim307 5y agoHard to say if all the data collection that happens online is any better
- emodendroket 5y agoIsn't that the point? No way out really.
- dopylitty 5y agoSure there’s a way out. Elect representatives who will vote to outlaw the use of facial recognition and other tracking technologies.
- emodendroket 5y agoThere are many things I wish they would do and this isn't at the top of the list for me.
- blagie 5y agoThat's kind of why we have broken laws. People vote for what's on the top of their list, which is always one side of the abortion debate, the gun debate, the social justice/identity politics debate, or otherwise. The stuff further down, in aggregate, matters a lot more, and is universally corrupt.
- emodendroket 5y agoNot sure those are the top ones either but let's grant the point. What do you think voters should be doing instead?
- mikecoles 5y agoShop local, independent stores. Vote with your wallet.
- blagie 5y agoHow do I know local, independent stores aren't using face recognition? I can get a home security face recognition camera for $30. This is no longer elite technology.
- emodendroket 5y agoI'll take my chances with the panopticon.
- arglebarglegar 5y agoi’d argue you’re giving away more online, especially the less savvy that aren’t blocking trackers - face tracking isn’t as widely distributed as trackers (yet)
- hanniabu 5y agoThen it's time to build yourself a greenhouse
- minton 5y agoI think I understand your general point. However, I can’t help but feel like it’s a form of giving up. We should be “yelling” loudly to our politicians while boycotting retailers that implement this.
- _Algernon_ 5y agoOr show up in one of those anti face recognition masks whenever you go shopping.
- emodendroket 5y agoYou've kind of been handed a readymade excuse to obscure half your face at all times. One of the big ironies of the 1/6 event that people were so committed to masklessness as a political statement that they filmed themselves commiting crimes without obscuring their faces.
- JohnWhigham 5y agoData tracking and collection has always been a thing for big brick and mortar stores, it's just that tracking technology has massively progressed in the past decade.
- emodendroket 5y agoYeah that’s all loyalty cards are about.