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Students Horrified When Error Message Appears on Vending Machine, Revealing Something Dark (Facial Recognition) (futurism.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Oh this is just too messed up..now vending machines have cameras in them?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

they might not have been trying to use the data at the point of sale right away, but having a database of their customer's faces would be valuable to them for plenty of marketing type reasons

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's always big data, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

it all ends up in a spreadsheet somewhere

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

It's all just one giant spreadsheet?

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