Is Anyone Aware of Why Walmart Requires Face ID to Look at Products for a Local Store?
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Just tried to see a product that Walmart has available, and when I click the link they require a long press to look at the product on their web store & in the app.
Is anyone else experiencing this? Are any other big tech/shops doing this?
Google keeps asking me to verify that I still own this number. Has anybody ne else experienced that?
I am in FB jail again and they wanted a picture of me to update their security. Well, I took a picture of my asshole. Hope they like it.
Walmart = DS
Walmart = Chinamart
One of my good friend's wife is that general manager of a walmart store. I enjoyed a long conversation with here recently about her significant challenges running her store that past year, keeping both her mask-hole customers and her MAGA customers happy at the same time.
Here's the scoop;
Enforcement of ALL covid policies are at the discretion of the general manager. Mask compliance, door greeter policies, cashier visor screens, one way entry and exit traffic barriers..... ALL at the discretion of the general manager.
Hope that helps.
It does for local shops.
I have been blessed to have 3 of the 4 local managers not enforce it outside of a sign at the door & one store has the plexi glass at registers.
Oddly the most rural of all 4 stores (with 20 min drive of each other) & arguably the most individual freedom based location enforces masks pretty hard.
The online issue with my phone concerned me. I don't know if this is a:
If they are trying to prevent identity theft with purchases I can understand a mandatory policy for checkout. Though to require my face to simply view products in the store (online or local shop supplies) is beyond excessive.
Hi, sorry to be so ignorant but if you would be so kind, would you expound on this? It sounds like you're saying that on your phone, you can do a motion that would allow Walmart to essentially see your face or take a picture of you. Is that right? If so, have you ever done that with any other company or been asked to do it? How does it work? It's pretty awful policy. Thanks.
Before I realized how deep & wide the swamp truly was (globally) I did allow my face to unlock phones early on.
Multiple times that day, with DDG, Google & Bing all 3 search engines every time pulled me up to a URL that I was Walmart.com (no subdomain in front of a phishing site) & when I would choose to use the Walmart app, the app itself would load up & have the same white bubble bar (oval about the size of a thumb) & I was simply instructed to press the button. About 2 seconds into that 5 second test It occurred to me that were scanning with my front camera & I pointed mo phone towards my ceiling immediately. Every time after that on the day I posted this I got an error on my phone about my face not being recognized & that I could not enter the site.
I tried it again & I can't replicate it. I did troubleshooting for a startup tech about 20 years ago & should have recorded it step by step & taken screen shots. I was busy with my family that day & figured I would look over it later.
It could be Walmart was hacked & that users during that time period, or in a certain demographic could have been sent to get face scans.
It was bizarre & IF it is a corporate hack, these guys are terrifyingly good, had the site been more than a blank white page with a loading bar animation on that button as you long pressed, I may have not thought twice about it. Once they get a site that mimics popular retail sites most would be tricked. Heck even those who are semi tech savvy likely would just go through on the 3rd or 4th attempt just to get to Walmart if they didn't understand this war we are actively in loved in via tech & info.
No idead if my supposition there is accurate at all, but I am still creeeped out about it.
Thank you. And I understand why you feel the way you do. Very concerning. If you ever experience something like that again, or figure out exactly what happened, I hope you'll post again and let us all know. Thanks again and stay safe!
Next time I will use screen capture video software & the built in screen shots on my phone if ever it happens again.
"I click the link they require a long press"
Sorry, but what does that mean? Do you mean login?
Even to simply see their website that day I was forced to press on a loading bar image (long press) and I continually pointed. Y front facing camera towards my ceiling. I figured they couldn't be trying to "authenticate" with a fingerprint since my screen doesn't have that tech as far as I am aware, but this device does allow me to login with facial recognition if I wanted.
It was weird. I cannot for the life of me replicate it. I posted a reply where I am considering it a corporate hack.
That is SO fucking weird.......... I wonder what on earth could have prompted that to happen. No wonder you were creeped out!
I would highly recommend you get a good VPN if you don't have one already, use a secure browser and double down on phone security just to be safe.
Using a paid one, not certain which ones are best.
I almost exclusively use Brave Browser & for every account that allows it I do 2 factor authentication to prevent hacks without being notified.
Is there anything else you would suggest, or where I can learn more about security?