What’s unfolding in Walmart is a microcosm of the techno-corporate surveillance state — where commerce, AI, and data are indistinguishable. It’s the invisible bargain: “cheap goods, expensive privacy.”

If institutions won’t self-limit, transparency must be demanded legislatively and technologically — with consumer encryption, anti-face-recognition wearables, and data-rights enforcement as your armor.

As Benjamin Franklin once implied: those who trade liberty for convenience deserve neither. If we let retail giants normalize ubiquitous biometric capture under the excuse of “loss prevention,” we lose something infinitely more valuable than inventory — our anonymity in public life.
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