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“Why do the stupid M&M machines have facial recognition?”
A student at the University of Waterloo in Canada asked that in a post showing a vending machine error message that revealed a facial recognition app had failed.
Student publication mathNEWS found that the machine’s maker, Invenda, advertises that it gathers “estimated ages and genders of every client.” But don’t worry, Invenda told Ars Technica the machines are “fully GDPR compliant.”
The school is reportedly removing the machines.
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