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  • A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology

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  • They need to recognize a face because they explicitly state in their FAQ they are estimating purchasers’ age and sex. This isn’t just adjusting lighting. I would not be so quick to say there is nothing problematic here. I’m highly skeptical.

  • A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology

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  • Based on the quotes from the vending company, at first I thought this was just a dumb way to detect when a human is standing there. But it’s worse than that.

    So first we get this from a company representative:

    The technology acts as a motion sensor that detects faces, so the machine knows when to activate the purchasing interface

    Ok, fine. Overkill, but fine. But then their company’s FAQ tells us this:

    only the final data, namely presence of a person, estimated age and estimated gender, is collected without any association with an individual.

    So they ARE collecting data, and they are trying to obfuscate that fact by saying they are just “activating the purchasing interface”. This isn’t just turning on a lighted display when a person is standing there. “Activating the purchasing interface” means activating the algorithms to analyze my appearance. They are trying to figure out who is buying their product. That’s different.

    So they are being shady about their true intentions. They aren’t being up front, and they expect us to trust that they aren’t storing or transmitting anything other than estimated age and sex. Hmm, maybe. But their actions don’t build trust.

    Plus, now I have to worry about VENDING MACHINES getting hacked and being used as surveillance devices now too?? Can I just buy a candy bar without being reminded we live in a dystopia?

  • Raspberry Pi - Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5

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  • I want to be excited about this, but I just don’t believe I’ll actually be able to get one for retail price. For much of the RP4 lifecycle they prioritized corporate sales, and regular consumers were out of luck. I don’t have a lot of faith in them right now.