The Secret Surveillance System Inside Every Store

We’re told “communist China” is some surveillance hellscape but look where the fuck we are

Every breathe you take, every move you make they'll be watching you. 😅😅😂

I think dropping a jammer in the store (which is illegal) would be very funny, wish there was something that would scramble bt data

Lowes has Flock cameras, too

I have uninstalled all the third party apps, keep my phone in safe mode and occasionally leave my phone at home on purpose. Driving a vehicle from 2006 with no smartphone on me makes me feel like it's the 1990's again.

I can't prove it, but my experience tells me it's 100% true: They not only know what you looked at in the store, but they also sell that data out to the wider marketing industrial complex. I stopped in that aisle, I looked at something, and now, Alexa in my home is showing me an ad for that thing.

Instead of jamming, could you broadcast your own erroneous iBeacon signals? Essentially, poison the data.

They do passive collection, not just the Ibeacon stuff. Turn off your Bluetooth radio. Its called a PAX counter. The Major data correlation company helps with the detections. its really bad tbh

Walmart gives me the creeps

The things that retailers, Google, and the rest do, if they were done by an individual, would violate stalking laws. Another example of corporations being "super people," with more rights than actual people.

I walked into a Target once, and without searching in my phone or saying anything, picked up a bottle of Burts Bees Cream, examined it, and put it back. When I got home, I got an ad on my phone for the exact product I picked up. Thats when I knew how far along we were.

So THAT'S why they removed headphone jacks from phone. Since now your option is to use Bluetooth headphones, most people just leave their Bluetooth always on, so it makes them even easier to track... it also forces us to buy expensive wireless headphones instead of the cheap earbuds you could find everywhere.

You're barely touching on all of the in-store cameras, and in particular, the software they have running them. They have facial recognition, license plate scanning, in-store (and in-parking-lot) movement tracking, gesture tracking, heatmaps of products you looked at, purchase conversion rates, who you are shopping with, etc. In short, every single aspect is being spied on when you are in a large retailer.

Pro tip: don't buy anything. Profit! 😁

Poison the Data!

Videos are definitely getting better, you can tell your confidence is increasing. Keep it up!

They read your plates as you drive in then it digitally raises the prices on what you previously purchased

Stay out of corporate (big box) stores, shop local. Don't carry your phone everywhere; "forget it" at home. Just remember what Scotty said, "The more complicated they make the drain, the easier it is to stuff up the works."

all this happened so fast too, within like 2 years

They will also change the prices on you... This isn't just the online shopping price and physically buying in store. The fun of that was changing the online price on the webpage and app when they know you are in the store. I turn my phone off and leave it in the car any more.