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.

  • TaleyaEnglish
    40·
    1 month ago

    “Protection against organised crime” my arse you could give the fucking cops footage of someone breaking into your house and raping your hamster while shouting their full name and address and they still wouldn’t do shit.

    This is about floggable data

    • zero_gravitasEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      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.

      • eraitchEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        Had no idea about this with Coles. Fark.

      • TaleyaEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        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