Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) | Hansard source

Big corporations are surveilling us, and they are invading our privacy. Some of the biggest offenders are our giant supermarket corporations, Coles and Woolworths. For example, Coles has a multi-year commercial arrangement with Palantir, one of the world's most dangerous and unethical corporations. Picture this: you're wheeling your supermarket trolley down the aisle in Coles, and, thanks to facial recognition software, Coles knows exactly who you are.

Thanks to Palantir integrating their data systems, Coles knows exactly what you like to buy, when you like to buy it and whether you are tempted by discounts or specials or not. Thanks to their digital price tags, Coles can manipulate the price in real time as you come down the supermarket aisle. This is surge pricing brought to you by Coles and Woolworths in the supermarket sector and delivered by surveillance capitalist corporations like Palantir. Prices may quietly go up for you and quietly go down for someone else 10 seconds later, depending on who is walking through the aisle, and the Labor government has no plan to protect Australians from this exploitation.