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A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology::A photo shared on Reddit showed one of the vending machines with an error code suggesting it used facial recognition tech.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

A simple motion sensor would have sufficed. A classic example of someone getting excited about a Tech buzzword and cramming it into a product.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Data like facial recognition can be sold, assuming it was storing and/or sending it somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Motion sensor is all well and good until they start to implement gait recognition and sell that data as well.

It'll soon know you by your sick dance moves.