<story><title>Mall real estate company collected 5M images of shoppers</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cadillac-fairview-5-million-images-1.5781735?cmp=rss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>strawberrypuree</author><text>&amp;gt;The company also argued shoppers were made aware of the activity through decals it had placed on shopping mall entry doors that referred to Cadillac Fairview&amp;#x27;s privacy policy.&lt;p&gt;Do &lt;i&gt;what&lt;/i&gt; now? Physical spaces have privacy policies? We&amp;#x27;re really sleepwalking into a dystopia. If you don&amp;#x27;t like the privacy policy of your shopping mall, you&amp;#x27;re free to shop... online, where they get even more behavioral data on you. Yikes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lhorie</author><text>&amp;gt; shoppers were made aware of the activity through decals&lt;p&gt;Indeed there&amp;#x27;s a huge glaring problem here: many of these malls have branded entrances (Shoppers Drug Mart, Best Buy, etc) through which a large portion of consumers walk into the mall, and these alleged decals are not present in those entrances. Here&amp;#x27;s an example [1]. Frankly I don&amp;#x27;t see said decals even in the non-branded entrances[2]&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;re going to have a very hard time convincing the commissioner that people were in fact aware of these decals AND any &amp;quot;privay policy&amp;quot; therein. A simple survey would easily show that people are completely clueless about it (anecdote: I used to frequent CF malls quite a bit when I was in Toronto and never saw anything of the sort, even despite being the type of person that might actually read random stuff posted at entrances).&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;maps&amp;#x2F;@43.7788812,-79.3447734,3a,75y,148.54h,94.37t&amp;#x2F;data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s5B1G-auvoo88FoFpyBxnBQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;maps&amp;#x2F;@43.7788812,-79.3447734,3a,75y,1...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;maps&amp;#x2F;@43.7789409,-79.3444783,3a,75y,186.41h,89.72t&amp;#x2F;data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjhm0Trt4WroYDcqQTdJgDw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;maps&amp;#x2F;@43.7789409,-79.3444783,3a,75y,1...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Mall real estate company collected 5M images of shoppers</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cadillac-fairview-5-million-images-1.5781735?cmp=rss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>strawberrypuree</author><text>&amp;gt;The company also argued shoppers were made aware of the activity through decals it had placed on shopping mall entry doors that referred to Cadillac Fairview&amp;#x27;s privacy policy.&lt;p&gt;Do &lt;i&gt;what&lt;/i&gt; now? Physical spaces have privacy policies? We&amp;#x27;re really sleepwalking into a dystopia. If you don&amp;#x27;t like the privacy policy of your shopping mall, you&amp;#x27;re free to shop... online, where they get even more behavioral data on you. Yikes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vel0city</author><text>In Canada, do you even really have a right to privacy when in public spaces like a shopping mall? Is there even a legal expectation that there &lt;i&gt;aren&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; cameras doing this kind of thing all the time? In most places in the US I know there isn&amp;#x27;t a right to privacy within a public space. If I as a shop owner put up security cameras in this same fashion in most of the US this wouldn&amp;#x27;t be against the law. There&amp;#x27;s no law preventing me from putting up cameras all along my home looking out into the street doing the same.</text></comment>