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Visitors to Walmart properties may have their vehicle and associated personal information automatically captured without any active interaction or awareness.
Interpretive note: The excerpt uses 'may also be in use,' indicating deployment is not universal across all properties. The canonical claim preserves this conditional language.
The updated privacy notice discloses that Walmart collects text transcriptions when you use voice features such as voice search or the Sparky AI shopping assistant. Walmart states it does not use voice data for biometric analysis and only captures voice interactions when you actively activate a voice feature by pressing the microphone button or similar action. Connecticut residents now receive the same additional third-party disclosure rights previously available only to Oregon and Minnesota residents. If you use voice features, your voice interactions will be converted to text and retained according to Walmart's data retention practices as described in the full privacy notice.
View change record →Visiting a Walmart property may result in the automatic collection of personal information via ALPR technology.
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Visitors to Walmart properties may have their vehicle and associated personal information automatically captured without any active interaction or awareness.
Visiting a Walmart property may result in the automatic collection of personal information via ALPR technology.
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