Daily Beast - Walmart’s newest commercial promises “Fridgetopia.” In it a mother and
daughter watch a live video feed of a Walmart worker who unlocks their
house with an app, carries a Walmart bag to their refrigerator, and
stocks it with healthy foods. It’s all filmed from a camera on the
worker’s chest, giving the video the eerie vibe of police body camera
footage—if the police officer were holding a bag of grapes instead of a
gun.
This is the new wave of camera-enabled delivery services, recently unveiled by the likes of Walmart and Amazon,
as well as some smaller competitors. Sometimes strapped to a drone,
sometimes to a worker’s chest, these cameras will roll while delivering
groceries, fast food, and small packages. The programs could be
convenient, or a privacy nightmare.
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