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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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Accounts tied to school ID card? That way you can’t steal someone’s and use theirs, just polls a database and correlates your picture to your id image or something.
About the only use case I can think of for a school.
This definitely couldn’t backfire. Can’t think of a single reason in recent memory why someone’s face wouldn’t be visible… 🤔
So it defaults to a pin after if you forget to remove your sunglasses.
At least in the case covered by the article, they don't appear to be doing that:
Still possible if they're being less-than-perfectly-honest in that statement, they invest more into the technology or with another machine/company somewhere else.
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That statement sounds weasely as fuck.
The technology in that specific machine cannot identify a user, does not mean the machine does no store or transmit the footage to be processed on another machine or system that can.
The linked article includes this statement from Invenda, the manufacturer of the machines. Still have to rely on their truthfulness but they do address that specific point.
Oh definitely isn’t, just an example of how it can be used. I’ve seen it used in plants to administer safety gear so people don’t use a dozen gloves a week, even though it’s free and provided.