Facial-recognition data is typically used to prompt more vending machine sales.
  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The Reddit post sparked an investigation from a fourth-year student named River Stanley, who was writing for a university publication called MathNEWS.

    Where Cadillac Fairview was ultimately forced to delete the entire database, Stanley wrote that consequences for collecting similarly sensitive facial recognition data without consent for Invenda clients like Mars remain unclear.

    Stanley’s report ended with a call for students to demand that the university “bar facial recognition vending machines from campus.”

    Some students claimed on Reddit that they attempted to cover the vending machine cameras while waiting for the school to respond, using gum or Post-it notes.

    The technology acts as a motion sensor that detects faces, so the machine knows when to activate the purchasing interface—never taking or storing images of customers."

    It was only after closing a $7 million funding round, including deals with Mars and other major clients like Coca-Cola, that Invenda could push for expansive global growth that seemingly vastly expands its smart vending machines’ data collection and surveillance opportunities.

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  • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Adaria Vending Services told MathNEWS that “what’s most important to understand is that the machines do not take or store any photos or images, and an individual person cannot be identified using the technology in the machines. The technology acts as a motion sensor that detects faces, so the machine knows when to activate the purchasing interface—never taking or storing images of customers.”

    “You should totally trust us about this, even though we failed to disclose the use of facial recognition software upfront.”

    This company needs to develop some software to go fuck itself.

    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      9 months ago

      If it’s just a motion sensor why not use a fucking motion sensor instead? It’s way cheaper than any kind of actual camera, not to mention ones that are able to do facial recognition. Such an obvious lie and poorly thought out excuse

    • Cyv_@kbin.social
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      9 months ago

      Wait so it just recognizes any face? Like the cameras at the walmart checkout that just go “yep thats a face slap a green box on that bitch” and thats it?

      • Cyv_@kbin.social
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        9 months ago

        Stanley sounded alarm after consulting Invenda sales brochures that promised “the machines are capable of sending estimated ages and genders” of every person who used the machines without ever requesting consent.

        From the article ^ so I stand corrected.

      • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Nope:

        Stanley sounded alarm after consulting Invenda sales brochures that promised “the machines are capable of sending estimated ages and genders” of every person who used the machines without ever requesting consent.

        Adaria Vending Services is clearly being deceptive, and what I and most non-corporate brainrotted people would consider straight-up dishonest, in the quote I posted above.

        That’s why I suggested they can go fuck themselves. I hope they lose a shit ton of money over this.