self checkouts facilitate logging your purchase data, imcluding your biometrics and facial data.
The shop is not paying me enough to do their job. Plus I never agreed to do any of it.
I use cash, go to cashier or kiosk every time or leave shopping items behind if closed as matter of principle…
Vote everyday with:
. your choice
. your feet
. your wallet
As if the same cameras aren’t pointed at everyone standing in a checkout line, let’s be honest, it makes no difference. You still swipe your card at the end, walk around with your phone radio, the face is just a cherry on top.
Cameras are equipped with face recognition. Habits and behaviours are analysed and monetised. Every company out there wants your data, not your money. Being able to target you directly is more valuable. Besides, each time you buy anything with your card or install an app your real identity gets leaked and there is a record [ metadata ] tied to your Digital Twin profiles via device identifiers. This makes you predictable, traceable and easily black mailable. Especially if you also have social media and big tech apps. There is a reason why the military calls them DEWs [ Direct Energy Weapons ].
In contrast you may:
. Opt-out from contactless cards by requesting chip & Pin only 😁
. Pay cash, monero or zano [ cakepay ]
. Opt-out of Mass Surveillance & Mass Data collection by de-googling your devices and using privacy respecting apps and solutions. This also makes it easier to control which radios and bands your device is allowed to use.
. Deacentralise your activities and learn basic opsec such as: Never give phone numbers and use email alias
. Avoid Self-Checkout! go to Quiosk! Its usually clear…
. Ask establishments about your facial recognition data and retention policies
Good luck!
Convenience Kills! 😎
I don’t think this means they are actually pulling out.
Its unclear to me if the 36% is bc they already have the tech so they don’t plan to invest further and new adoption don’t happen bc everyone who “needs” it already has it or if the ones who have it are planning to get rid of it.
To me it just sounds like the people at the top didn’t foresee the problems that actually arise in a real world setting and their overconfidence gets adjusted to a more reasonable outlook but the self checkout will not go anywhere, 36% is still a pretty big number, self checkout might just not be feasible for a lot of places in the first place.
I see it being implemented in more places not less, they are just finetuning it now.
