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Apparently, Bunnings have my face on-file. I don't think I like that.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I'm getting sick of having to explain to people that "i'Ve gOT noTHIng tO HiDE" is naive bullshit when this comes up

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Doesn't always work, but I ask if they shit with the door open. If they say no, I argue they have nothing to hide, everyone shits

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

The real question is...does this apply to my dog too?

[–] Matty_r 1 points 3 hours ago

If possible, support your local small businesses.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

No thanks to the federal government beefing up privacy legislation.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

"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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I wonder what percentage of Australians will have stepped into a Bunnings over the past three years? It has to be above 90% of us, right? That's pretty close to a record of us all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

It's all wesfarmers, and i'm pretty fucking sure that shit doesn't stop at bunnings stores.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's only 63 stores though. Not all of them

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

It is now rolled out to all Bunnings stores. So now when you steal something they don't apprehend you, they store the footage and once you steal enough to get the cops involved they dump all that footage on the cops desk. People think they get away with stealing, time says otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago

So ahhh, the massive fine?

Did they even get a wrist slap?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Does anyone know whether they published the ordered statement and where?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Article says they've got 30 days to publish it, and also that they're planning to appeal, so that might delay it further.