Leo Molloy source of Golriz smear, Supermarket mass surveillance and why Police involvement now demands investigation

Wait? WHAT!

Leo Molloy, the toxic leprechaun is the source of the latest Golriz shoplifting smear…

Golriz Ghahraman and the $150 Pak’nSave shopping incident – supermarket never complained to police who tried to use allegation in court

The revelation of a new alleged shoplifting incident came from Auckland restaurateur Leo Molloy in a social media video and led to a fresh wave of online abuse against the former MP.

…well that changes everything doesn’t it?

If a bad faith actor like Molloy is involved it puts into question the entire allegation…

It has also emerged that Ghahraman was confronted before she even reached the checkout – a detail one leading lawyer says would make it very difficult to prove she was shoplifting because she had yet to have a chance to pay for the goods.

…we’ve all put shit in our bags as we do the shopping, fully with the intention of paying, she was approached before she had even reached the checkout FFS, this is a set up.

But the story doesn’t end there, because there is now an enormous question mark left hanging over all of this, which is how the Christ the cops became so involved in this allegation that they attempted to use it as evidence against her in her appeal…

The Herald has spoken to multiple sources familiar with the case and has also learned police tried to introduce the alleged incident into the High Court hearingwhere Ghahraman was seeking to have her sentence on four counts of shoplifting overturned in favour of a discharge without conviction.

If police discovered the matter via the surveillance network co-ordinated through the Auror platform, officers would have found the alleged supermarket incident – involving what the Herald was told was less than $150 in goods – out of around 20,000 shoplifting reports made every year by Pak’nSave’s owner, Foodstuffs.

…wtf?

The cops gained access to Supermarket facial recognition technology and attempted to insert that evidence in Golriz’s appeal?

WTF?

Look.

I have argued that it is glib and cruel to focus on this latest shoplifting allegation, because if it was true then she really does need help and we have far bigger fish to fry than a former MP (who clearly needs help) shoplifting.

I also have argued that Golriz was wrong to seek an appeal on what was a very fair sentence handed down to her, but the fact the cops attempted to use this footage as evidence against her in that appeal raises serious questions about the mass surveillance powers the Supermarkets now have!

Why are we allowing supermarkets more surveillance powers than the State?

Rotorua woman wrongly kicked out over Foodstuffs facial recognition fail says she’ll keep fighting

A Rotorua woman wrongly kicked out of a supermarket using facial recognition technology says she will keep on fighting its spread.

Foodstuffs says a trial in 25 New Worlds and Pak’nSaves has concluded the technology reduces harmful behaviour shoppers, and its use will carry on.

Te-Ani Solomon said she too would carry on with her case at the Human Rights Review Tribunal, claiming the technology was discriminatory.

“Because I really don’t want this to happen to anybody else and for my own selfishness, I have to, because I’ve never in all my life felt so powerless till I did that night, where I was in front of my son, embarrassed, trying to justify how I wasn’t a thief,” she told RNZ on Friday.

Doesn’t it say something of the power of the Supermarket Duopoly that they are able to film us using face recognition technology?

Why the fuck have we allowed them to have more mass surveillance powers than the Police?

Supermarkets and access to them are a necessity as a part of our food supply chain.

Yes shoplifters and abusive customers are not acceptable, but cutting them from accessing food is more unacceptable!

Using mass surveillance with face recognition technology to troll for all behaviour in public before Police attempt to use that as evidence is such an enormous over reach of power you can see why that aspect of the Police case was quickly shelved in case the public begun asking how the Police knew about the allegation and what legal processes they used to gain access.

Why have we allowed Food Corporations so much power, including filming us? They have an obligation as part of our food supply chain that goes beyond thieves, so why are we allowing them to use theft as a means to spy on us in their shops?

It’s not only spying on us as customers, it’s a skinning of the human worker into drones…

The dispute causing empty shelves at Woolies is a test case for companies using AI and automation on worker

Behind the empty shelves in Woolworths supermarkets across Victoria and New South Wales is a fraught battle between workers and employers that could affect the future of workplaces everywhere.

The dispute has been triggered by stalled enterprise bargaining negotiations between Woolworths and the United Workers Union.

A major factor involves Woolworths introducing a “coaching and productivity framework” to speed up work at distribution centres. This involves surveillance technology and monitoring to direct each worker’s movement and output.

Under this framework, so-called engineered standards or “pick rates” are designed to speed up work on the warehouse floor. Warehouse workers typically wear headsets through which they are told what items to pick and from where, via AI-generated algorithms.

…so the Supermarkets are using mass surveillance on us (which will inevitably be sold on to a 3rd party for psychological harvesting) and using it to reduce their own workers into slaves.

Again, why do the Supermarkets have this level of God like power and are they giving the Police access to that power without any checks and balances?

I know in NZ we like our fascism to be casual, wouldn’t it just be so Nu Zilind that we hand the fucking Supermarkets this level of Big Brother oppression?

The banality of kiwi evil eh?

To paraphrase Fred Dagg, We don’t know how spied on we are.

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