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>The company also argued shoppers were made aware of the activity through decals it had placed on shopping mall entry doors that referred to Cadillac Fairview's privacy policy. Do what now? Physical spaces have privacy policies? We're really sleepwalking into a dystopia. If you don't like the privacy policy of your shopping mall, you're free to shop... online, where they get even more behavioral data on you. Yikes.
If this is all privately held data that can't be accessed without a warrant... why not? Just so I'm clear, the argument against this is: - Merchants should be able to hire humans that sit around looking at camera screens all day trying to find shopping patterns, shoplifters, etc. - Any attempt to automate this tedious task is dystopian and evil ?
"Merchants should be able to hire humans that sit around looking at camera screens all day trying to find shopping patterns, shoplifters, etc." There is no identification part in what you describe. Generic stats (how many person in the queue, etc.) are okay. The issue is not facial detection but facial recognition. They stored model of faces associated with data which mean they could point a camera at anyone in the s…
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A piece of data on its own is usually pretty harmless, a gigantic database that is organized, categorized, and distributed, is potentially very harmful. And it's a smooth gradient between them. An example of data that is harmless on its own but harmful at scale is license plate reading. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/we-know-where-yo... a few points tells you that a person is in a city, a few more tells…
Do you use a credit card? Why are you so upset about this dataset but not that dataset? Honest question.
Having a card is just as unavoidable as needing to go to the shopping centre to buy groceries, so this isn't even a case where "if you don't like it don't use it" applies
Is it legal in Canada to deny someome a service offered to the public because they didn't agree to this absurd policy?
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This is a government problem, not a privacy problem. If your government is intent on detaining and torturing dissidents, then privacy laws aren't going to stop them. Who do you think makes and enforces the law? The solution to that is to change your government.
The US is one of the most democratic nations on Earth. The NSA spies on its own citizens, and won't even tell congress how. https://ca.reuters.com/article/ctech-us-usa-security-congres... The CBP is buying location data on US citizens, tracking them without a warrant, country wide (not just at borders), and won't say why/how: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/dems-call-for-cbp-location-data-in... Police, the FBI, and more us…
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> In Canada, do you even really have a right to privacy when in public spaces like a shopping mall? Yes, you do, because while a shopping mall might be considered a "public space," it is private property owned by a private organization. In Canada the PIPEDA [1] covers this federally, though the law is written such that it is a backstop, and provinces are free to enact their own "substantially similar" (or stricter) l…
Personal information under these laws are defined as: age, name, ID numbers, income, ethnic origin, or blood type; opinions, evaluations, comments, social status, or disciplinary actions; and employee files, credit records, loan records, medical records, existence of a dispute between a consumer and a merchant, intentions (for example, to acquire goods or services, or change jobs). How does video of people passing by…
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The US is one of the most democratic nations on Earth. The NSA spies on its own citizens, and won't even tell congress how. https://ca.reuters.com/article/ctech-us-usa-security-congres... The CBP is buying location data on US citizens, tracking them without a warrant, country wide (not just at borders), and won't say why/how: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/dems-call-for-cbp-location-data-in... Police, the FBI, and more us…
So if we make it illegal for the mall to have security cameras then the NSA will stop spying on people?
Data should be legally made in to toxic waste we all know it should be treated as.
It was a beta test run 2 years ago. Someone ran fast and broke things and were probably fired. Take off your tinfoil hat and relax.
CF doesn't care who the individuals are or their identities, though general demographics would probably be interesting. They certainly have signs up at every entrance clearly indicating that you are on camera, but I think they are actually surprised about the biometrics data being stored offsite. I suspect they didn't understand this when they setup the AVA trial.
They use analytics on the WiFi based on MAC as well as Internet use.
This data is used to determine the number of unique users that pass by different parts of the mall to identify high traffic and 'dead zones'. They use different marketing programs to increase traffic to dead zones and can justify higher rent in high traffic zones.
https://www.cadillacfairview.com/en_CA/news/CF-opc-investiga... It was a beta test run 2 years ago. Someone ran fast and broke things and were probably fired. Take off your tinfoil hat and relax. CF doesn't care who the individuals are or their identities, though general demographics would probably be interesting. They certainly have signs up at every entrance clearly indicating that you are on camera, but I think th…
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I never turn on wifi or bluetooth away from home, my question is, are they doing LTE data collection too?
>are they doing LTE data collection too? Don't cell carriers already sell your "anonymized" location data to marketers?