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wtg
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posted 25 February 2024 08:23 PM
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Canada-based University of Waterloo is racing to remove M&M-branded smart vending machines from campus after outraged students discovered the machines were covertly collecting facial-recognition data without their consent.

The scandal started when a student using the alias SquidKid47 posted an image on Reddit showing a campus vending machine error message, "Invenda.Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe," displayed after the machine failed to launch a facial recognition application that nobody expected to be part of the process of using a vending machine.


https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...of-college-students/


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posted 25 February 2024 08:38 PMHide Post
Good grief.

Why?


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posted 25 February 2024 10:01 PMHide Post
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Why?


Analysis of customers’ demographics and purchasing habits?

Not that I agree with it, but I think any marketing division wants as much info about customers/consumers as it can get.


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posted 27 February 2024 03:23 PMHide Post
Though cameras are everywhere, they see what you are doing at self checkout in Walmart, I just assumed they use facial recognition software there?


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posted 27 February 2024 05:55 PMHide Post
This makes me miss the '70's before all this BS.
 
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