Vending machines had eyes all over this Ontario campus — until the students wised up
Vending machines had eyes all over this Ontario campus — until the students wised up
www.cbc.ca /news/business/vending-machine-facial-analysis-invenda-waterloo-1.7126196
An Ontario university is pulling dozens of vending machines that were tracking the age and gender of customers in the latest example of pushback against technology that tests the boundaries of privacy rules.
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The idea that facial recognition was just to determine if someone is in front of the machine is a diversion. A simple occupancy sensor would do the same, cheaper and more simply. The company only invested in the facial recognition because they are getting some other gain from it (presumably, data harvesting).