Tag: privacy

Data marketers aren’t just using your location to help you find the nearest restaurants or gas stations. They’re tracking your movements from the moment you wake up and using that data to form a profile of you.

While still a patchwork in the United States, the enactment of citizen-inspired privacy laws to counter the proliferation of rampant data generation and collection is moving fast and taking off, putting the onus on businesses, including retailers, to ready internal protocols and systems to ensure compliance.

Rite Aid will be prohibited from using facial recognition technology for surveillance purposes for five years to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the retailer failed to implement reasonable procedures and prevent harm to consumers in its use of the technology in hundreds of stores.

Computer vision works to automate tasks and derives meaningful information from video footage in real-time.

In response to calls from CHOICE, 17 retailers—including Woolworths, Coles, and Aldi—said they are not and have no plans to use facial recognition in their stores.

The internet has given us unprecedented access to information and each other, but that can come at a cost.

Most social media platforms use algorithms to collect all kinds of data about each user, from age and location to shopping habits and political preferences.

In the United States, officials are concerned that TikTok’s indirect connection to the Chinese government could put user data at risk.