A new patent is raising privacy concerns from consumers and workers. Walmart has been granted approval for a listening system to measure employees performance at checkout. The problem? The cart-based ...

In June 2020, amidst nationwide protests initially triggered by the police-custody death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, in Minneapolis, a Facebook user posted a (subsequently deleted) account ...

Walmart wants to listen to its workers and shoppers more. A lot more. America’s largest retailer has patented surveillance technology that could essentially spy on cashiers and customers by collecting ...

Walmart has been awarded a U.S. patent for a "listening to the front end" technology that potentially could be used to build a system of sensors to monitor various shopping activities inside of a ...