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Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students | Facial-recognition data is typically used to prompt more vending machine sales.


Facial-recognition data is typically used to prompt more vending machine sales.

Where Cadillac Fairview was ultimately forced to delete the entire database, Stanley wrote that consequences for collecting similarly sensitive facial recognition data without consent for Invenda clients like Mars remain unclear. Advertisement Stanley's report ended with a call for students to demand that the university "bar facial recognition vending machines from campus." It was only after closing a $7 million funding round, including deals with Mars and other major clients like Coca-Cola, that Invenda could push for expansive global growth that seemingly vastly expands its smart vending machines' data collection and surveillance opportunities.

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