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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday October 18 2017, @07:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the stick-your-purchases-in-your-boot-for-you? dept.

In the minds of mobile shoppers, where is the line between convenience and personal space/privacy? We now have two retailers — Walmart and Amazon, the giants of in-store and online shopping, respectively — separately testing programs to deliver purchases directly into your home or your car trunk when the shopper is nowhere near.

Both efforts rely on mobile devices connecting shoppers to the scene of the delivery, where customers can theoretically watch the delivery in real time. It isn't practical or likely, but that's the idea. Mobile is what justifies these attempts.

Does the trunk of your car really make for a more secure delivery, or is it multiplying insecurities?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @10:12AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @10:12AM (#583871)

    We already have an abundance of police planting evidence to make a bust. How about, we just make it easier for them to "hack" our vehicles, so they can plant whatever they wish to plant? Sounds like a great idea. People investing in prisons for profit need to be assured of their profit!!

  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday October 18 2017, @01:27PM (1 child)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday October 18 2017, @01:27PM (#583922) Journal

    Wouldn't that make it easier for the accused to show reasonable doubt?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @03:43PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @03:43PM (#583982)

      If you are the sort of person where the courts would listen to those sort of claims of reasonable doubt, then you are not going to be the target of those types of frame-up.