- The University of Waterloo is expected to remove smart vending machines from its campus.
- A student discovered an error code that suggested the machines used facial-recognition technology.
- Vending Services said the technology didn’t take or store customers’ photos.
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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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.