Who's watching while we shop?
Every time you walk into a Coles supermarket, data is being collected. What you buy. Where you go. How you move.
Now imagine that data being analysed by a company whose technology is used in surveillance systems, deportation programs, and war zones.
That's not a future scenario. It's what's happening right now, and why tens of thousands of people across the country are pushing back.
Now imagine that data being analysed by a company whose technology is used in surveillance systems, deportation programs, and war zones.
We are calling on Coles to:
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- End its partnership with Palantir
- Publicly clarify what data has been accessed by Palantir
- Commit to keeping defence-grade data-integration systems out of Australian supermarkets
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Supermarkets are essential infrastructure. We buy our groceries there every week. They are not intelligence agencies. They are not defence contractors.
Palantir's software is used to directly enable some of the worst abuses of the Trump regime. It's used by ICE to power data systems that track, target and coordinate detention and deportation operations – and US Senate investigations have linked those operations to family separations with more than a thousand children still not reunited.
Its tech was also used to plan the illegal attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of Maduro that reportedly left more than a hundred people dead or wounded. And Palantir's founder and chair is the controversial Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel – who's spent vast sums of money promoting ideas and political candidates widely condemned as anti-democratic and racist.
Yet one of the country's largest supermarket chains is embedding Palantir's sophisticated tech in its core operations, while simultaneously collecting detailed surveillance and behavioural data from shoppers.
This combination has the potential to normalise intrusive data practices in everyday life – long before we have robust safeguards in place to protect privacy, fairness and democratic accountability.
Palantir's software is used to directly enable some of the worst abuses of the Trump regime. It's used by ICE to power data systems that track, target and coordinate detention and deportation operations – and US Senate investigations have linked those operations to family separations with more than a thousand children still not reunited.
Its tech was also used to plan the illegal attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of Maduro that reportedly left more than a hundred people dead or wounded. And Palantir's founder and chair is the controversial Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel – who's spent vast sums of money promoting ideas and political candidates widely condemned as anti-democratic and racist.
Yet one of the country's largest supermarket chains is embedding Palantir's sophisticated tech in its core operations, while simultaneously collecting detailed surveillance and behavioural data from shoppers.
This combination has the potential to normalise intrusive data practices in everyday life – long before we have robust safeguards in place to protect privacy, fairness and democratic accountability.
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We deserve to buy groceries without wondering what invisible systems are watching, tracking or profiling us.
I call on Coles to:
- End its partnership with Palantir
- Publicly clarify what data has been accessed by Palantir
- Commit to keeping defence-grade data-integration systems out of Australian supermarkets
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