University of Waterloo students discover candy machines are covertly collecting data.
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I would assume that whoever wrote the app did not purposely make it for secretly and illegally collecting data. It is probably a commercial software for every windows machine with a camera.
A vending company has stated that they use face-tracking technology like this solely to recognize faces in order to activate displays when a person is standing in front of the machine. Whether or not you want to believe this is up to you.
I don’t because a simple motion sensor with a very short range would achieve the same thing without being overly creepy and unnecessary.
The perfect cover is the over-designed machines. The drink machines where I work are now this 2-axis spider cup that fails roughly every alternate day.
I’m trying to imagine in my head what that looks like and I’m honestly failing.
You got a cup with a base that can lift into a slope attached to two perpendicular rails, so when you press the buttons to get a drink it zooms along the rails to reach the slot you picked (sometimes, it's some sort of "smart" setup where if multiple slots have the same kind of drink, it'll pick a slot with more product in it, so sometimes you hit E7 and it pick G7 because there's more tea in that slot, I think), the drink is dispensed into the cup, then it drops it into a carousel with a clear plastic sleeve that rotates the sleeve out of the way.
It is overdesigned.
