• The University of Waterloo is expected to remove smart vending machines from its campus.
  • A student discovered an error code that suggested the machines used facial-recognition technology.
  • Vending Services said the technology didn’t take or store customers’ photos.
  • brianorca@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    It does also estimate age and gender, so there’s some potential for data mining. But not much.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah but I wonder how far they would push their next generation versions…