- 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.
So facial recognition in this case means that it can recognize that a face exists? No particular details but just a face? That’s a lot less egregious than I assumed from the headline. With all the AI stuff going on these days, I assumed it was some kind of data mining operation
It does also estimate age and gender, so there’s some potential for data mining. But not much.
Yeah but I wonder how far they would push their next generation versions…