That vending machine is watching you

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25 February 2024, 08:23 PM

wtg

That vending machine is watching you

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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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25 February 2024, 08:38 PM

Steve Miller

Good grief.

Why?

25 February 2024, 10:01 PM

ShiroKuro

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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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27 February 2024, 03:23 PM

jodi

Though cameras are everywhere, they see what you are doing at self checkout in Walmart, I just assumed they use facial recognition software there?