Fuck me, I just want some ice cream, cat food and a bag of chips, why should that cost my privacy.

Yet another reason not to ship at coles. They are getting a beating in their ACCC hearing too. Independent grocers and Aldi should be the default for everyone. Unfortunately, most people shop at the duopoly to their long term detriment.

It's good to see the abc actually calling out the implications and problems too. Not just for consumers, but for coles and for the countries interests. It makes it harder for coles to spin it as being for shareholders or for cost pressures etc.

All the big supermarkets already share surveillance data with each other. If this is coming to Coles it's probably coming to every big retailer in the country

Australia is always the testing ground for what they do later. Austalians will accept almost any horrible surveillance, so if they beta test there and Austalians won't comply, they slow the roll out.

I'm surprised at the abc having an accurate article that calls out the dangers of palantir. They don't even talk just about the privacy invasion but the risk for coles of losing control of their data. We all know how enshittification happens at this point, so it's a given.

Imagine if we had politicians who cared about our privacy...
They don't care because they use the data.

From companies using AI to track what people are search for then serving adds based on those search terms.
They track subscribers / buyers
Banks etc sending our data offshore to Adobe and others to build profiles.
Our faces being dumped to large databases

It is endless