Originally Posted by
PoliTalker
Hello evince,
Well there is an anonymity that comes with the mask. It can be used to protect privacy. Many people are unaware of the length that big box stores will go to in order to better understand who is shopping there. Try reading the user agreement for Home Depot. Pages and pages. They describe what they do. Cameras in the stores with facial recognition. Electronic signal detection to identify shoppers who are carrying a cell phone or other device. And of course ID associated with a credit card if used in a purchase. It all goes into a file, along with information gathered from cookies generated from website visits. They will also gather information from social media posts, and if friends share contact lists with corporations. They will also purchase data from data-gathering corporations. And they have cameras in their parking lots to try to ID auto tags.
I don't like the idea that a big heartless inhuman corporation is collecting all this data on me.
We are long past 1984 and big brother, eh?
I like to try to fool them sometimes. It's probably folly. But the use of masks will foil facial recognition SW.
Leave the cell phone at home. Wear clothing with no writing on it. Wear a hat and sunglasses. Nice big facemask. Only use cash for purchases.
I wonder if it works?
Maybe they already have you from previous purchases and ID of your car. I dunno.
I don't like the privacy intrusion.
Most people don't even read the user agreements.
The corporations make them very long and full of legal mumbo jumbo precisely to deter people from learning everything they do.
I read them.
It's scary what they do.
It is also disheartening that so many people in our society are so willing and complicit to accept the intrusion.
Is our 4th Amendment meaningless?
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches..."
The 4th amendment doesn't apply to stores. It applies to government.
If you don't like the way a store treats you, go somewhere else.
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