I’m not in a part of the US with a Wegmans food market, but I always had the impression they were some of the good guys.

I’m not in a part of the US with a Wegmans food market, but I always had the impression they were some of the good guys. And I just saw they still write about diversity and inclusion on their website when others have deleted that recently.

So why is Wegmans doing biometic scanning in some locations in NYC? The signage says says it’s to "protect the safety and security of our patrons and employees.” But how does it do that? It seems it could instead put them at risk if shared with organizations such as ICE. (The posted policy about sharing the information does not preclude such sharing, as long as it’s done for free.)

https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-wegmans-is-storing-biometric-data-on-shoppers-eyes-voices-and-faces

h/t @augieray @bicmay @Barbramon1

#privacy #nyc

@jeridansky

We have Wegman's here and it's a good grocery store, but pretty anti-union, which sucks. This biometric scanning is garbage - they're 110% gonna share it with law enforcement, I'm sure of it.

I’m not in a part of the US with a Wegmans food market, but I always had the impression they were some of the good guys. And I just saw they still write about diversity and inclusion on their website when others have deleted that recently.

So why is Wegmans doing biometic scanning in some locations in NYC? The signage says says it’s to "protect the safety and security of our patrons and employees.” But how does it do that? It seems it could instead put them at risk if shared with organizations such as ICE. (The posted policy about sharing the information does not preclude such sharing, as long as it’s done for free.)

https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-wegmans-is-storing-biometric-data-on-shoppers-eyes-voices-and-faces

h/t @augieray @bicmay @Barbramon1

#privacy #nyc

I’m not in a part of the US with a Wegmans food market, but I always had the impression they were some of the good guys. And I just saw they still write about diversity and inclusion on their website when others have deleted that recently.

So why is Wegmans doing biometic scanning in some locations in NYC? The signage says says it’s to "protect the safety and security of our patrons and employees.” But how does it do that? It seems it could instead put them at risk if shared with organizations such as ICE. (The posted policy about sharing the information does not preclude such sharing, as long as it’s done for free.)

https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-wegmans-is-storing-biometric-data-on-shoppers-eyes-voices-and-faces

h/t @augieray @bicmay @Barbramon1

#privacy #nyc

@jeridansky @augieray @bicmay @Barbramon1 Wegmans doing retina scans already marks them as bad in my book, and I went to Wegmans a ton when I lived in Buffalo (for school).

I’m not in a part of the US with a Wegmans food market, but I always had the impression they were some of the good guys. And I just saw they still write about diversity and inclusion on their website when others have deleted that recently.

So why is Wegmans doing biometic scanning in some locations in NYC? The signage says says it’s to "protect the safety and security of our patrons and employees.” But how does it do that? It seems it could instead put them at risk if shared with organizations such as ICE. (The posted policy about sharing the information does not preclude such sharing, as long as it’s done for free.)

https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-wegmans-is-storing-biometric-data-on-shoppers-eyes-voices-and-faces

h/t @augieray @bicmay @Barbramon1

#privacy #nyc

@jeridansky @augieray @bicmay @Barbramon1
Yuck! How could it possibly protect anybody to be scanned? And what's in it for Wegman's unless they can somehow profit from the data? It must cost them something to do it. This sounds really malign to me.

@jeridansky @augieray @bicmay @Barbramon1 Ugh. And unfortunately masks don’t help with eyes and voices.

Wegmans is where we’ve done most of our food shopping for years.

@yoasif @jeridansky @augieray @bicmay The really weird thing about the eye and voice scans is that signs in their stores warn people that they are being scanned, but the company officially denies that they are scanning!
Apparently the only Wegmans stores using facial recognition technology are in the New York City area. Their customers need to scream about this from the rooftops and shut down before it spreads.