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Subject: College M&M vending machines with facial recognition software
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 12:49:26 +0530
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by: Indira - Sun, 25 Feb 2024 07:19 UTC

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/vending-machine-error-reveals-secret-face-image-database-of-college-students/
https://futurism.com/the-byte/error-message-vending-maching-facial-recognition
The vending machines are manufactured by a company called Invenda �X which
markets them as "intelligent" vending machines �X and are owned by the maker
of M&Ms, MARS.

Alarmed by the glitch, the students did some digging on the manufacturer.
On its website, they found a brochure for the vending machines which
revealed that they're installed with a "demographic sensor."

Not only can the sensor perform a "people count," according to the
brochure, it can also do "demographic profiling" which allows the machines
to calculate the age and gender of anyone that approaches by using the
camera.

"[I'm] kind of shocked just because it's a vending machine, and I don't
really think they need to be taking facial recognition," another student
told CTV News.

10.0 times 0.1 is hardly ever 1.0.

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