The pictures can be used for any legal purpose, from catching your hand in the till to watching the little old lady slip on a grape, it also might be used for sales and marketing purposes (not advertising, but seeing which products attract attention). Sorry to say the privacy act does not cover workplace monitoring such as CCTV and email/phone. The organisation just has to have a policy that workers know they are being monitored, and any data stored must relate to the employees employment (images, emails and phone conversations). Like I said you are monitored for all sorts of things during a shop, as long as the shop displays signage that cameras are in use the pictures can be used for that stores puposes (not just security) and destroyed when not required. Your image is captured, your spending habits are sold to marketing companies, FF programs and shopper loyalty programs only made this worse. Obviously there are rules like can not be in toilets, showers etc. With regard to private cameras, they are not covered by the privacy act at all.
Last edited by 43Inches; 22nd Nov 2021 at 05:43.