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Walmart Gains Patent To Eavesdrop On Employees And Customers
Lola:
--- Quote ---Walmart gains patent to eavesdrop on shoppers and employees in stores
The system would pick up scanner beeps, rustling bags and conversations.
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--- Quote ---Walmart this week was awarded a US patent for a new listening system for its stores that could raise serious privacy concerns from its shoppers and workers.
According to the filing, the system would capture a variety of sounds in the store to figure out employees' performance and effectiveness at checkout.
For instance, the system can be used to capture beeps produced by a scanner and the rustling of bags at checkout to find out the number of items in a transaction or even the number of bags used.
More alarmingly, the patent mentions that the system could be used to listen to guests' conversations to determine the lengths of checkout lines.
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How is this ethically a good thing?
https://www.cnet.com/news/walmart-gains-patent-to-eavesdrop-on-shoppers-and-employees-in-stores/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0b&linkId=54242402
DeeDee:
Ethically awful. But their property, their rules.
ThreeStep:
Not a place I spend a lot of time in or talk much. The local WM made pick-up store of 2017 and is swarming with pickers. They will politely run over you if you do not move fast enough.
Middle Child:
--- Quote from: ThreeStep on July 14, 2018, 07:22:22 AM ---Not a place I spend a lot of time in or talk much. The local WM made pick-up store of 2017 and is swarming with pickers. They will politely run over you if you do not move fast enough.
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What? Could you please interpret. funny2
ThreeStep:
--- Quote from: Middle Child on July 14, 2018, 07:49:26 AM ---What? Could you please interpret. funny2
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Pick-up of on-line orders is the thing at WM now. Our local store made top 1 of the country. So called pickers push huge carts through the store and put those orders together. They are under time constraints and will not budge when a two legged in-store customer tries to get something out of a shelf. Explained? The latest and greatest is delivery. Same game, different color of bins. Now Sprouts is going that way as well.
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