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A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2024
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There is a valid reason. It's easier. You don't need to get a person to watch/count/analyse the inventory.
The machine can also just count what it sells. It doesn't need to do facial recognition to see who's buying it
Yeah I think you're just paranoid. Maybe you need to understand how this works better before making a snap judgement. No personally identifying pictures are stored. What's wrong with a bit of market research? Knowing which (estimated) gender buys what is not that big a deal.
Y'all can downvote me and argue till the cows come home, but y'all are just paranoid. I see nothing wrong with this.