When next you walk into a target or big W, ask to see the conditions of entry. Along with implied consent to have your bags checked at any time, you have probably given consent to be video'ed and tracked at their behest. The poster is on the wall somewhere usually. Your statutory rights cannot be abrogated but equally, the grey areas have been 'informed'.
BT tracking inside the store is passive collection of data you are radiating. The store's use of the BT location and timing of presence against shelves is private information of immense value to them. They share it for mutual benefit with suppliers, or for money. I doubt they give much away.
The large international scroogle rhyming company was compiling third party uses of the data to inform location as a service, and were not solely collecting information inside their own physical territory you entered, with implied consent: they were harvesting data in the public space and then providing insight into that data into the public space.
They relate because its harvesting RF. They don't relate in much else to my mind.
-G
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 08/08/2013 07:41 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:The rules are different for large companies with funny names.
Hmmm didn't a certain large company whose name rhymes with scroogle recently get whacked with a huge fine for violating privacy in a similar manner in the EU?
Keith