Students Horrified When Error Message Appears on Vending Machine, Revealing Something Dark
futurism.com
The college students discovered that the facial recognition software was part of the vending machine's "demographic profiling" feature.

Oh this is just too messed up…now vending machines have cameras in them?

  • Dave@lemmy.nz
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    10 months ago

    It mentioned targeted discounts based on demographic, which sounds to be like pricing things based on demographic.

    If the data is local and stays on the machine, I’m guessing they mean the face data. They are probably sending the data about what demographics buy what things at what price point to feed to other machines.