Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts

Post by pixl97 » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 8:01 PM UTC

Frost1x wrote: post #191

47282847 wrote: post #92

I make it a point not to use self-checkout systems because I want to support human interaction even if basic, and contribute to jobs for humans. And cash (most self-checkouts here are card-only). I understand it’s a losing battle on all fronts.

Yea, where’s the theft of my time and labor for now performing part of your business transaction process you should be performing by hiring staff to check me out. You don’t want to pay people to do that and put yourself in a higher theft situation, then you haggle the customer even more by treating them like a criminal. I had one of these happen at a self checkout the other day where the system did object tracking an…

Post by pixl97 » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 8:05 PM UTC

octo888 wrote: post #276

AidenVennis wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure if this is the same for the USA, but worker shortage is the main reason why self-checkout became popular here in Europe at least. Aging population, very low birthrate and higher educated people all contributed to this problem (although not for all countries in the EU).

> worker shortage is the main reason why self-checkout became popular here in Europe at least What exactly do you mean? That the companies moved to self checkout because they couldn't get the staff? Or people prefer self checkout because the manned tills are few in number? The first is very very hard to believe

Post by adamrezich » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 8:11 PM UTC

pixl97 wrote: post #511

adamrezich wrote: post #494

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your theory of urban/rural bifurcation is overly reductive. My city had a population of about 40,000 in the 70s (when guns were left in racks in the backs of trucks in the high school parking lot)—it's about twice that today. (I did however just return from visiting my wife's hometown in northern Idaho, which has a population of about 500, and indeed I did not feel the need to lock my car, despite keeping a firearm i…

40,000 people live within a few miles of me. That isn't a city, that's a suburb or a town. Also the leaving guns in vehicles thing could also be affected by another number here. And that is miles driven per capita and vehicles owned per household averages. That is you could have the same total number of thieves that steal guns, especially among those with more poverty, but as you increase the number of cars groups th…

Post by AngryData » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 8:24 PM UTC

DaSHacka wrote: post #296

4ggr0 wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> stealing is just rude. Theft is terrible. you, I, and probably most people on HN have the privilege of seeing it this way. for others, it's sometimes not a moral question, but a question of survival or at least dignity.

I know, how terrible the thieves are so hard-up they have to eat that pair of Jordans. Or those Milwaukee power tools. Oh my, what a terrible world...

Post by godelski » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 8:24 PM UTC

neilv wrote: post #385

benchly wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Appreciate the story, but what's the hangup about naming these companies? It's not really a secret that retail LP generally abuses their role across the board and allows prejudace to run rampant in its ranks, giving that it is almost entirely comprised of people from backgrounds that lack any higher education and recieved a few months training at best to do what they do. Heck, step in any active American mall and you…

> Appreciate the story, but what's the hangup about naming these companies? 1. Social media today has strong mob behavior, which is one of the reasons I often default to not naming when you want to talk about a more general problem. In this case, it would probably be OK, but I defaulted to not. Think of it like a blame-free post-mortem for the org to learn from. 2. I don't want to invite more grief from elements the…