University of Waterloo faces uproar as M&M vending machines on campus secretly collect facial data.
Why does a vending machine want to know you by face? That’s exactly what students at the University of Waterloo in Canada asked when they uncovered that M7M-branded smart vending machines on campus were silently collecting facial-recognition data without their consent. , posted an image on Reddit revealing an unexpected error message on a vending machine, exposing the covert operation. The message read “Invenda.Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.
The controversy has, however, led to a dent in students’ confidence in the university’s administration. Some took matters into their own hands. “What students have been doing over the past two weeks is coming up with sticky tack, with chewing gum, with post it notes, doing anything to cover these sensors,” Stanley added“Over the next day, people are finding these sales processes where you can see this particular model vending machine comes with demographic data sensing capabilities.
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