"The chain had initially said that the scanning system was only for a small group of employees and promised to delete any biometric data it collected from shoppers during the pilot rollout.

The new notice makes no such assurances."

"Will Owen, a privacy advocate with the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, said that storing customer's biometric data can open them up to risks from hackers or immigration enforcement.

"It's really chilling that immigrant New Yorkers going into Wegmans and other grocery stores have to worry about their highly sensitive biometric data potentially getting into the hands of ICE," he said."

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Chinese Gov Security has Surveillance Tech everywhere in cities, plus Forced DNA Testing... and you know how Donnie so admires people like Xi and Putin.

Here's a short vid on Wegmans surveillance, and efforts in NYC (also in the article) to protect citizen's privacy and data rights.... that have stalled recently, but maybe will resume as NYC has New Management, eh?