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Airport-style security at supermarkets slammed

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Newstalk ZB Staff,
Publish Date
Wed, 15 Aug 2018, 8:02AM
The Ferrymead Countdown has been criticised for using hand held scanners on potential shoplifters. (Photo / Google)

Airport-style security at supermarkets slammed

Author
Newstalk ZB Staff,
Publish Date
Wed, 15 Aug 2018, 8:02AM

Questions around what supermarkets can and can't do when it comes to security.

Countdown's apologised to customers and ordered its Ferrymead store to stop the practice after a patron complained security staff were using airport-style handheld scanner to detect potential shoplifters

Simpson Grierson partner John Rooney told Mike Hosking it's quite different to being filmed.

"If it was, say, a CCTV, you're looking at all of the people who are in the store or the business, as opposed to targeting all the individuals when you don't have any particular reason to do so."

Rooney says the Privacy Act clearly sets out limitations.

LISTEN TO JOHN ROONEY TALK WITH MIKE HOSKING ABOVE

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