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A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology (www.businessinsider.com)

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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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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I wasn't against the idea of using facial recognition (age/gender) to do things like recommend products, where I first saw it in Japan on train station vending machines.

The difference is that in my example the camera was in a very obvious spot, here it seems it is covertly collecting facial recognition data, and users weren't aware it was happening until a student noticed this error.

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago

I wouldn't mind if like I told my phone to send out a signal "I am a man, but I like cold tea". Partnering together with the machine to help me buy something I will enjoy is truly helpful.

Consent makes all the difference in the world.