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Retailers are pulling back from self-checkout after years of theft, errors, and questionable time savings (www.techspot.com)
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[โ€“] BooBees@fedinsfw.app 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

But at least they harvested tons of biometric, personal, behavioral and health data connected to account names and numbers to sell to data harvesters, merchants, hackers, governments and other ill intentioned groups, right?? So not all a loss.

[โ€“] dan@upvote.au 3 points 4 days ago

biometric, personal, behavioral and health data

What data are self checkouts collecting that regular checkouts aren't?

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