This seems eerily related to what Danielle Citron was writing about in another post on this blog this morning. Leo Kelion reports: A “smart” vending machine that analyses users’ age and gender has been launched in the US by Intel and Kraft Foods. The iSample is being used to offer customers trials of a new…
Category: Business
Amazon Is Guessing Your Religion From Your Gift Wrap
Clare O’Connor writes: Privacy pragmatists, you may want to think twice before outsourcing your gift wrapping to Amazon next holiday season. You (hopefully) already know the king of web retail is mining data based on your shopping habits, location, music taste, and other fairly obvious lifestyle indicators. But did you know Jeff Bezos and co are guessing your…
Surveillance, For Your Benefit?
Danielle Citron writes: Bloomberg Businessweek reports on retailers’ use of camera surveillance to glean intelligence from shoppers’ behavior. RetailNext runs its software through a store’s security camera video feed to analyze customer behavior. RetailNext describes itself as the “leader in real-time in-store monitoring, enabling retailers and manufacturers to collect, analyze and visualize in-store data.” According to the company, it…
Ticket exchange website ordered to provide RFU with personal data of sellers
A website that enabled users to buy and sell tickets for international rugby matches must provide the Rugby Football Union (RFU) in England with the personal data of people who used the site to trade those tickets at an inflated price, the Court of Appeal has ruled. The Court rejected claims made by Viagogo Ltd…