So recently, I went into a shipping service store, that is well known, etc etc. I walked in, asked a question, then walked out. I did nothing else.
A couple days later, I get an email from them, to the email address that I have used for them in the past. The email wants me to take a survey.
Now, since I have made a shipping label online with them before once, then took that label (attached to a parcel) in the store, which was then scanned, I can only assume that this recent email I got was the result of facial recognition data gathering.
I am an extremely privacy conscious person, but this tactic evades even me, as the only way to avoid it, would be to never set foot into their store.
I really really hate myself too because the email I used with them is one of my personal-name emails and now they have that. I did that before I became privacy conscious. I can only imagine how other people feel, who are much deeper in the hole than a random facial recognition incident.
Have any of your ever experienced this? where you walked into some place and then got an email? It’s so creepy…
Do places like this do facial recognition for marketing purposes? It seems like they have much easier ways to track their customers.
Was the survey you received about your recent visit? Or is it possible that it’s a coincidence that they sent it to you after you went in?
In any case, wearing a face mask might help you from being recognized by cameras.
It didnt say why it was sending me a survey. It was just generic, saying they want me to have a good experience. The last time they did that was over two years ago. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that i had gone into their store a day before.