RetroFedKnown for their work with the CIA, tech company Palantir is coming to Coles
lumpenproletariathttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-09/coles-just-hired-us-defence-contractor-palantir/103443504
Coles plans to deploy data company Palantir’s tools across more than 840 supermarkets to cut costs and “redefine how we think about our workforce”. At a time of increased food insecurity, Australians should question if this is the right direction, writes Luke Munn.
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Fuck me, I just want some ice cream, cat food and a bag of chips, why should that cost my privacy.
Yet another reason not to ship at coles. They are getting a beating in their ACCC hearing too. Independent grocers and Aldi should be the default for everyone. Unfortunately, most people shop at the duopoly to their long term detriment.
It’s good to see the abc actually calling out the implications and problems too. Not just for consumers, but for coles and for the countries interests. It makes it harder for coles to spin it as being for shareholders or for cost pressures etc.
SakuraiAn excellent reminder to shop at markets where you can, and grow your own where you’re able to
Yes, farmers markets are ideal but they are not as common as independent grocers.and don’t match every schedule as sometimes only open for a few hours a week.
CherryIt’s not really like you have much choice given there is a duopoly of supermarkets.
You always do. However, you have to make the effort. Aldi and iga as well as lots of other smaller options are there.
Coles and woolies only act as a duopoly when we let them. When they actually have to compete, consumers and workers benefit. Aldi is cheaper and pays their workers better. No facial scanning and invasive privacy practices from them either.
It’s hard to get a full shop from though. And IGA is nice but somewhat expensive, and a bit hit and miss of quality/stock in store. New Aldis have facial cams.
It’s hard at Aldi to get the same processed crap week on week out. It kind of needs a mindset change. Go in looking for stuff to try not your usual stuff to buy. You’ll find some you like and some you don’t. They change and rotate available products all the time.
It’s also terrible for the environment for us to be time shifting all our fresh produce. We should be eating more seasonally, which doesn’t have to mean less choice.
I’m European. Aldi was my fav anyway. However the range you get is very limited. That’s assuming you have a Aldi close by. It gets frustrating. I bake sometimes you just don’t get the ingredients you need there.
I’m not arguing. Colesworth are prats. They have conditioned people to put up with their crap, and most just accept it.
All the big supermarkets already share surveillance data with each other. If this is coming to Coles it’s probably coming to every big retailer in the country
Australia is always the testing ground for what they do later. Austalians will accept almost any horrible surveillance, so if they beta test there and Austalians won’t comply, they slow the roll out.
I’m surprised at the abc having an accurate article that calls out the dangers of palantir. They don’t even talk just about the privacy invasion but the risk for coles of losing control of their data. We all know how enshittification happens at this point, so it’s a given.
It’s not an ABC article, it’s from The Conversation. It’s also pretty old, that’s probably why data was a focus (there were several high profile data breaches around that time).
ozzyImagine if we had politicians who cared about our privacy…
They don’t care because they use the data.
From companies using AI to track what people are search for then serving adds based on those search terms.
They track subscribers / buyers
Banks etc sending our data offshore to Adobe and others to build profiles.
Our faces being dumped to large databases
It is endless
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