[artathred]

Are you genuinely acting this obtuse? what do you think walmart and every single retailer does when you walk into a physical store? it’s always constant monitoring to be able to provide a better customer experience. This doesn’t change with online, businesses want to improve their service and they need the data to do so.

[1718627440]

If you're talking about the same jurisdiction of this privacy laws, then this is illegal. Your are only allowed to retain videos for 24h and only use it for basically calling the police.

[artathred]

walmart has sales associates running around gathering all those data points, as well as people standing around monitoring. Their “eyes” aren’t regulated.

[1718627440]

Walmart in the EU?

[artathred]

replace walmart with tesco or your eu retailer of choice, point still holds.

playing with semantics makes you sound smart though!

[1718627440]

The question still stands then: Does it happen in Tesco in the EU? Because that is illegal.

The original idea was that it should be legal to track people, because it is ok in the analog world. But it really isn't and I'm glad it is illegal in the EU. I think it should be in the US also, but the EU can't change that and I have no right to have political influence about foreign countries so that doesn't matter.

[artathred]

it’s illegal for Tesco to have any number of employees watching/monitoring/“tracking” in the store with their own eyes and using those in-store insights to drive better customer experiences?

[owebmaster]

> it’s always constant monitoring to be able to provide a better customer experience

This part gave me a genuine laugh. Good joke.

[artathred]

ah yes because walmart wants to harvest your in-store video data so they can eventually clone you right?

adjusts tinfoil hat

[owebmaster]

yeah this one wasn't as funny.

[artathred]

I can see how it hits too close to home for you