• Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
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    12 hours ago

    Also facial recognition, eye tracking, body language analysis - creating the glass shopper, selling the data for peanuts while violating any decency. Legislation is so far behind the current reality that it isn’t even funny anymore.

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      12 hours ago

      The last federally-passed privacy law concerned video store workers not sharing what VHS tapes you rent. Because it was the 80’s…

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        6 hours ago

        Thank fuck that killed Bork’s Supreme Court nomination, fucker was talking about political exceptions to the first amendment.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      11 hours ago

      They could do it like Minority Report where it scans you as you grab the item and automatically withdraw the money from your bank account. Tho it’s not gonna be reliable, so they’re just gonna be stealing your money simply walking by the shelf sometimes.