Home Depot And Lowe’s Accused Of Scanning Millions Of Customers Faces

This is probably true any place there is a camera.

Camera is merely data collection.

The facial recognition can be done anywhere, it's just software and a database.

My walmart just put in new self checkouts and tore out the regular ones. Guess what?

They got your face on the screen now, probably saved on a computer.

This is probably true any place there is a camera.

Camera is merely data collection.

The facial recognition can be done anywhere, it's just software and a database.

Alot of thefts occur at retail stores, With all this camera tech, it seems like hardly any get caught. Employees are not allowed to touch thieves, they are simply given a clear path to leave. Sad but True.

Home Depot And Lowe’s Accused Of Scanning Millions Of Customers Faces

Home improvement stores like Home Depot and Lowe's have become partners in Big Brother's ever expanding public surveillance program.

Home Depot's "You Can Do It. We Can Help" slogan should really say, "We Can Do It. We Can Help Big Brother." And Lowe's "Do It Right For Less. Start At Lowe's" slogan should say, "Doing It Right And Identifying Every Customer, Starts At Lowe's."

According to the Cook County Record, two recent class action lawsuits accuse Home Depot and Lowe's of secretly using facial recognition to identify customers as soon as they enter their stores.

On Sept. 4, 2019, a group of plaintiffs simultaneously filed virtually identical class action complaints in Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago against Lowe’s and in federal court in Atlanta against Home Depot, accusing the retailers of violating the Illinois state law by “surreptitiously” scanning customers’ faces as they moved about the chains’ stores.

According to the Lowe's lawsuit, home improvement stores are secretly using facial recognition to identify everyone.

“Lowe’s has augmented its in-store security cameras with software that tracks individuals’ movements throughout the store using a unique scan of face geometry. Put simply, Defendants surreptitiously attempt to collect the faceprint of every person who appears in front of one of their facial-recognition cameras.” (To find out more about Home Depot tracking customers, click here.)

The Home Depot and the Lowe's cases claim that they have failed to inform customers that their biometric data is being collected, and did not obtain written consent for doing so. Home Depot and Lowe's have also neglected to post a publicly available retention schedule detailing when the data will be destroyed.

According to the Lowe's class action, "defendants actively conceal their faceprinting practices from the public."

The class action also claims that Lowe's has been secretly using facial recognition for over 11 years. There is no mention of how long Home Depot has been using facial recognition.

Have private corporations secretly turned America into China? Since when did it become OK for private corporations to secretly surveil the public?

But that is not the end of this privacy nightmare. Things get worse, and I mean a lot worse.

1984 Is Now!

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guess what else is now coming into practice? Here in Arizona, more stores are requiring me to hand them my driver's license every time I buy a pack of cigarettes. Without telling you, they wave you ID card in front of a scanner. So now every time I buy a pack of cigarettes, that information gets recorded and sent to "FUCK IF i KNOW WHO". When I asked them what gave them the right to do that, they say "you did" and point to a little sign on the wall that's posted about 10 feet high with small print saying I consent to being identified when I buy a pack of cigarettes.

So either undercover cops are patrolling Lowes, or your a paranoid schizo.

In all likelihood, you creeped the girl out and she told the manager some weirdo is hitting on me.

You know if I was doing a documentary TV shoot within a private establishment, I have to get permission, a contractual release form.

Did Home Depot or Lowe's ask for permission or even attempt to warn their customers or guests about scanning their unique biometric features and storing that information for some monetary purpose?

This is probably the meat of the Lawsuits...

we have a right to privacy

if there was a police officer standing at every intersection or store entrance, demanding to see and scan your ID , you'd all be flipping out. except for the biggest ass kissing authority worshippers

I've always been creeped out by the ones in Home Depot. They have a screen showing the camera image and warning and beep at you as you walk past.

Home Depot And Lowe’s Accused Of Scanning Millions Of Customers Faces

Home improvement stores like Home Depot and Lowe's have become partners in Big Brother's ever expanding public surveillance program.

Home Depot's "You Can Do It. We Can Help" slogan should really say, "We Can Do It. We Can Help Big Brother." And Lowe's "Do It Right For Less. Start At Lowe's" slogan should say, "Doing It Right And Identifying Every Customer, Starts At Lowe's."

According to the Cook County Record, two recent class action lawsuits accuse Home Depot and Lowe's of secretly using facial recognition to identify customers as soon as they enter their stores.

On Sept. 4, 2019, a group of plaintiffs simultaneously filed virtually identical class action complaints in Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago against Lowe’s and in federal court in Atlanta against Home Depot, accusing the retailers of violating the Illinois state law by “surreptitiously” scanning customers’ faces as they moved about the chains’ stores.

According to the Lowe's lawsuit, home improvement stores are secretly using facial recognition to identify everyone.

“Lowe’s has augmented its in-store security cameras with software that tracks individuals’ movements throughout the store using a unique scan of face geometry. Put simply, Defendants surreptitiously attempt to collect the faceprint of every person who appears in front of one of their facial-recognition cameras.” (To find out more about Home Depot tracking customers, click here.)

The Home Depot and the Lowe's cases claim that they have failed to inform customers that their biometric data is being collected, and did not obtain written consent for doing so. Home Depot and Lowe's have also neglected to post a publicly available retention schedule detailing when the data will be destroyed.

According to the Lowe's class action, "defendants actively conceal their faceprinting practices from the public."

The class action also claims that Lowe's has been secretly using facial recognition for over 11 years. There is no mention of how long Home Depot has been using facial recognition.

Have private corporations secretly turned America into China? Since when did it become OK for private corporations to secretly surveil the public?

But that is not the end of this privacy nightmare. Things get worse, and I mean a lot worse.

1984 Is Now!

Read More About This Orwellian Nightmare:

[link to massprivatei.blogspot.com (secure)]

How about a GLP baseball cap with an extra long brim on top an attached high intensity headlamp pointing down on the brim to cast a dark shadow over the face. Call it the GLP In Your Face Anti Face Scanning FU Hat.

Update: The Wife claims it is probably for people that assemble "murder kits". WFT was my response. Evidently murderers purchase (some times credit) the things you need to do that deed and hide the evidence. She claims many have been caught. That is a excellent use of that technology. Bravo in that case.