Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students

Re:Vending machine error reveals secret face image database ... by cjbprime on Friday February 23, 2024 @06:18PM (#39487402)

> Seems a way over engineered way to activate the display and is pretty much in place for future use.

This is a very generous reading. A more parsimonious one is that they are actively doing facial recognition to get age and gender, and are arguing this is legal because they don't store the faces after acting on them, as the quoted marketing material suggests.

(I would expect laws banning unconsented facial recognition to ban it regardless of whether the faces end up in a database afterwards.)

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Re:Vending machine error reveals secret face image database ... by aniftythrifrty on Friday February 23, 2024 @06:48PM (#39487629)

It's not doing facial recognition in that it is trying to identify people, it is doing meta-facial recognition, not looking for people's identities just their meta, non-personal info, like male or female and supposed age.

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Re:Vending machine error reveals secret face image database ... by kulshan on Friday February 23, 2024 @07:41PM (#39487982)

I was doing my best to not apply too much judgement with so little facts.

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Re:Vending machine error reveals secret face image database ... by nothercastle on Saturday February 24, 2024 @09:32AM (#39491728)

Why would you expect laws to be sensible?

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