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What do TikTok, Bunnings, eBay and Netflix have in common? They’re all hyper-collectors

  • Written by Brendan Walker-Munro, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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You walk into a shopping centre to buy some groceries. Without your knowledge, an electronic scan of your face is taken by in-store surveillance cameras and stored in an online database. Each time you return to that store, your “faceprint” is compared with those of people wanted for shoplifting or violence.

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