Target security breach affects local shopper

  The security breach at all Target stores nationwide put 40 million shoppers at risk of fraud, and it’s already prompting tighter security for local customers. Theresa Moore shops at Target all the time, so she knew she needed to be on high alert. And apparently, her bank was too, because when she…

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Privacy campaigners slam shopper tracking tech

Monitoring technology used in shopping centres to track customers’ movements via their mobile phones has come under fire from civil rights campaigners, who claim that it invades people’s privacy. FootPath technology, manufactured by UK company Path Intelligence, uses signals from a shopper’s mobile phone to pinpoint their position to within…

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