A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology::A photo shared on Reddit showed one of the vending machines with an error code suggesting it used facial recognition tech.
On the one hand, I can totally understand that there is a difference between recognizing a face and recognizing your face. Algorithms that recognize a face are really easy to implement now.
On the other hand, though, why should a vending machine need to recognize a face? So it shuts off it’s lighting when no one is looking at it? I’m not sure if there is any practical benefit besides some project manager justifying a new feature with buzzword-compliant tech.
I believe the company when they say there is nothing problematic here, but they deserve the bad press for thinking it would be a good idea in the first place.
Lesson learned: don’t name your surveillance tool EvilFaceRecognition.exe
We got a phishing campaign at work awhile back with an attachment named “OktaAccountStealer.pdf”
… I was impressed. What I really want to know is how many people opened it anyway.
They do shit like that on purpose. Someone who is aware enough to read the names of attachments probably won’t fall for the rest of their scam. Its a filter to make sure they don’t waste their effort on anyone other than the most gullible.
How about totallylegitfacerecognition.exe?
“Don’t be evil”
It’s funny how much I love cyberpunk fiction but how much I hate cyberpunk reality. Now if the vending machine becomes sentient? Then we are good, until then I guess fuck these guys?
I’ll gladly welcome the sentient machines if they can make me a sandwich now and then
A solution in search of a problem. They didn’t need that tech for a payment interface.
Glad the college I went to is too cheap for these fancy things. Their vending machines are just barely smart enough to use tap pay, and by barely I sometimes it doesn’t even work.
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