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A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology (www.businessinsider.com)

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A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology::A photo shared on Reddit showed one of the vending machines with an error code suggesting it used facial recognition tech.

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[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 17 points 9 months ago

Of note, it'd be pretty easy to push an OTA software update to have it go from recognizing a face to recognizing your face

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

then of course linking your card/phone to your face. maybe you can get a text message reminding you that you ate one this time last week and "youre not yourself when you're hungry"

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