Ein Freund und ich waren vor ein paar Tagen bei Walmart. Sie hatte ihre physische Karte nicht, also habe ich meine Karte verwendet, um ihre Sachen zu bezahlen. Meine Karte ist mit meinem Walmart-Konto verknüpft. Etwa einen Tag später schrieb mir der Freund eine SMS.
„Hey, erinnerst du dich, als wir zu Walmart gingen und ich vergessen habe, dass dort nicht per Fingertipp bezahlt wird, also haben wir deine Karte benutzt?“
„Ja, warum“
„Na ja, das hat sich irgendwie in meinen Einkäufen niedergeschlagen“
Es tauchte in ihren letzten Einkäufen und in meinen letzten Einkäufen auf. Es konnte auf keinen Fall mit ihrer App in Verbindung gebracht werden, da wir meine Karte verwendet haben. Das Einzige, was wir denken können, ist, dass ihr Gesicht, weil es beim Selbstcheck-Out vor der Kamera stand, durch die Gesichtserkennung mit ihr in Verbindung gebracht wurde.
Wir haben auch andere Sachen gekauft, die ich gescannt habe. Der einzige Kauf, der in ihrer App angezeigt wurde, war das, was sie gescannt hatte.
Fotos unserer beiden letzten Einkäufe als Referenz.
Von jhm5243
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This is wild
The self checkout asks for your phone number. When entered, it connects the purchase with the account associated with the entered phone number.
While I think it’s possible. Wonder if she made it easy for it having the app open and order in it? Or it saw or connected to her phone at some point. If you’re using WiFi your on their network
You can see that on the cameras they have, especially at self checkout they literally grab your face.
Walmart stores card numbers across platforms and shares the data with additional sites like Ibotta and Facebook. Coming from someone who certainly doesnt work for Walmart or anything.
Tracking credit cards. Maybe faces, too.
K but how would they link your face to your online account?
I saw a similar post where someone said they forgot their phone at home, paid in cash, and it still showed up in their recent purchases. A lot of this tech is being rolled out swiftly due to lagging regulation, or is just being hidden from the consumer and law. I unfortunately can not seem to find the post right this minute.
I took a tech bussiness class once. Did you know Walmart’s supercomputer was (around 2016, idk about now) second to only the pentagon. Yeah dude, they see everything. If my home town Walmart gets a hot product it will be front and center of every Walmart the next day.
They don’t need your face when they have your metadata, it’s more useful. Your devices being with you, likely with their app installed combined with both of your browsing history. Your browser tracks everything you look at and Walmarts app track that data.
All of us are feeding companies with huge amounts of metadata all the time. Companies know more about us than we know about ourselves.
Duh. The self checkout machines have cameras, you have an app. Plus if you ever have to pay for something on the app and use a Face ID
Thanks for sharing, this is just nuts. Sorry for all the comments who clearly aren’t getting it lol
I can’t believe how many people in the comments are simply not getting it
The Dunning-Kruger effect is in full swing in the replies!
OP couldn’t make it clearer:
his friend didn’t use their app,
didn’t use their credit card,
didn’t browse for the items on their phone,
was just there, next to OP in view of the checkout camera(s) –
but somehow, post purchase, the specific items (OP SCANNED AND PAID FOR WITHOUT ANY INTERACTION WITH HIS FRIEND) found their way into the purchase record log of his friend’s Walmart store account.
Hence, the logical explanation of how this could occur is Walmart is tracking, tracing and using video surveillance and facial recognition to identify its customers, unbeknownst to its customers!
reading this thread has been quite the exercise lol
Idk having every Walmart app users facial recognition in a live database specifically to squeeze a little bit more shopping history out to feed their algorithm seems more wasteful than useful, since it only helps them advertise to that user specifically. The other comments about them using the proximity of the phone makes more sense, but still don’t have an exact explanation for this.
For reference, I get annoyed when my wife just swipes the card instead of using the app at Walmart bc then it’s way more difficult for me to put the purchases into our budget compared to when I can see every item purchased on the app and those transactions never show up in the Walmart app.
Walmart uses facial recognition and gate analysis to identify you as soon as you’re in the store (prolly soon as you’re on property) up to the moment you leave. Whilst shopping their system is paying attention to things you show heavy interest in and what goes into your cart and eventually out the doors. No shit
Have you checked to see if your friend has your credit card saved to her account?
I paid for fuel and milk at my local no name Indian owned gas station. Their new card reader had a camera facing the customer. I hate this new ai existence.
its not a onepay debit card through Walmart or card you’ve linked Walmart to on your banks side (not just as a payment method on Walmart.com/in-app), right?
Thats weird. Stuff that my husband and I have bought just using our debit or credit card have both showed up on the app when we’ve bought in store. I was wondering how that was happening because we aren’t using the app to purchase. It used to be only things I ordered for pickup or shipped would show.
Why are you all going to Walmart in the first place
Walmart payment asks for your phone number before you begin checkout. maybe she put in her number?
I did 3 purchases at self checkout, all 3 different physical cards, with 2 cards not in Walmart app & 1 in app. The one paid from app card shows up in my history. The other two doesn’t.
Is there consent somewhere you would need to provide in order to have your face stored and linked to your account? I’m guessing it’s not at the self checkout level but likely somewhere in the apps terms of service
Judging by how much they collect in their In-Store and online TOS / Privacy policy, definitely possible.
It’s weird because I thought they were doing this too but I can’t see any of my self checkout in store purchases that I made – even with a credit card I have linked to the Walmart app – that I didn’t put my phone number into the POS. If they were consistently scanning faces they should have all of my purchases – especially ones I used with the linked card, and had my phone with me at checkout.
Government tests tech and software in Walmart and Target
This happens every time I go to Walmart. I use self check out, I do not enter my phone number or any identifying information, and I do not have a card on my Walmart account and im also not signed up for Walmart plus. Somehow my in-store purchases always show up on my Walmart app.
There are articles about them doing this which I’m failing to find at the moment, however they’ve been doing some variation of this for years. Every wonder why almost no Walmart has a security guard? It’s because they know when you steal shit and keep this on file. After some number of incidents, they press charges.
Don’t download apps without looking at the fine print.
I used to work at Walmart. Yes, it is facial recognition. They use it to keep track of everyone. The main use was to track thieves but you know how that goes. If they can keep track of what thieves steal they can keep track of what you buy.
Also they don’t need your whole face. Just your eyes.
Not saying this didn’t happen, but I’m in Canada. I go into Walmart occasionally for a few items but most orders we do curbside pickup thru the app. When I go inside I don’t use my app.
My order history only shows my curbside purchase history even though I’ve bought things in person using the same credit card
Purple
Too freaky and you’re onto something. Ha in 4 years this will be a class action that pays us $3 😭
I bet she typed in her phone number
I went to the airport in my mom’s car and the parking scanner charged my card. It’s posted that they scan the license plate so idk how they got my card. Was it my phone? Not sure