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    10 months ago

    https://corporate.target.com/news-features/article/2012/02/an-unexpected-career-target-forensic-services-labo

    Unbeknownst to most, Target has a top-rated forensic services laboratory that provides forensic examinations, and assists outside law enforcement with help on special cases.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/csi-walmart/521565/

    Target and Walmart both declined to comment for this story, but in a press release from 2012, Target said it volunteers to get involved with with “felony, homicide, and special-circumstances cases.” In 2008, a Target spokesperson told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that a quarter of the cases it worked on were unrelated to the company itself.

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      10 months ago

      so they look at surveillance video for murderers… they’re not solving outside crimes

      Inside, they comb through video-surveillance records and spirit data out of devices that have seen better days        
      

      its a “digital forensics” lab… they’re investigating embezzlement… hackers…
      the whole “target is the panopticon” thing is a clever viral marketing ploy to reduce shoplifting…

      that and the thing where they supposedly keep tabs on you for years until you hit a felony total of shoplifting, THEN they bust you and you have to pay $5,000,000,000…
      that’s not even how laws work…