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Partner spent a significant time working at Target, can confirm Their Loss Prevention is so advanced that FBI has collaborated with them for case help https:/
by gavinray 6mo ago
Partner spent a significant time working at Target, can confirm
Their Loss Prevention is so advanced that FBI has collaborated with them for case help
https://thehorizonsun.com/features/2024/04/11/the-target-forensics-lab/ https://thehorizonsun.com/features/2024/04/11/the-target-for...
I also worked there briefly in my teens, they are a great employer.
- culi 6mo agoYeah Target is notorious for its surveillance technology. Before the rightwing boycotted Target for it's lgbtq+ merch and before the liberals boycotted Target for its rollback of DEI initiatives, many of us had been boyoctting Target for decades because its advancement of surveillance technology and cooperation with companies like Palantir https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/san-francisco-gets-invasive-billionaire-bought-surveillance-hq https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/san-francisco-gets-inv... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-25/how-target-tgt-police-surveilled-black-neighbors-in-inner-cities https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-25/how-targe...
- happyopossum 6mo ago> Yeah Target is notorious for its surveillance technology. Can confirm - my wife called in a complaint about some graffiti / vandalism or something that was obscene in a target, and when she got a call back from a rep they were able to pinpoint everywhere she went in the store to determine which sign she was talking about...
- doctorpangloss 6mo agothey have the best marketed loss prevention: by getting nerds to talk about, people are like, ooo i shouldn't shoplift at target of course, without any real data, how would anyone know?