Australia

Only if you've been one of the people who abuse their staff, steal or have been banned Your face is scanned upon entry, it is then compared to that rogues gallery, if it doesn't match, the scan is deleted, if it flags against their rogues gallery, securty pays closer attention to you.

If its as they say, I have no issies with it . their is no corelation between who I am and the scan they took of me and its not in the Governemnts hands. I'd suggest a privacy commissioner audit would make more sense. We are scanned at aiports AND our data is stored, i have more concern about that

I'm getting sick of having to explain to people that "i'Ve gOT noTHIng tO HiDE" is naive bullshit when this comes up

"Protection against organised crime" my arse you could give the fucking cops footage of someone breaking into your house and raping your hamster while shouting their full name and address and they still wouldn't do shit.

This is about floggable data

I wonder what percentage of Australians will have stepped into a Bunnings over the past three years? It has to be above 90% of us, right? That's pretty close to a record of us all.

So ahhh, the massive fine?

Did they even get a wrist slap?

No thanks to the federal government beefing up privacy legislation.

Does anyone know whether they published the ordered statement and where?

The real question is...does this apply to my dog too?

Ah, perfect. Another corporation shits on your rights and this time they don't even get a "cost-of-doing-business" fine.

if just one person could be protected from trauma the use of facial recognition would be "justifiable".

Funny how gov & corpo's frame all their crimes as "for your protection".

"The electronic data was never used for marketing purposes or to track customer behaviour," Mr Schneider said.

I'd be willing to bet all that I own this is either a complete lie, or by omission.

Commissioner Kind said she didn't think Bunnings deserved to be financially penalised as they had good intentions when they rolled out the technology and were cooperative with the investigation.

Ahh. If only every criminal received leniency for "good intentions".

Example# 12753974 that we live in corporate plutocracies masquerading as "democracy", and there is a separate rule of law for the wealthy/corporations.

But don't worry, I'm sure the neolibs across LabLib will legalise these violations soon enough — maybe you'll need to scan your digital GovID™️ to enter any store; for your protection, ofcourse!

If possible, support your local small businesses.

They destroy it but you have no authority of their backup overseas.

Hoo-fuckin-ray.