“Only because of that official investigation did Canadians learn that ‘over 5
million nonconsenting Canadians’ were scanned into Cadillac Fairview’s
database”. Wow. This Wired article is contradictory. The spokesperson says: “an
individual person cannot be identified using the technology in the machines. The
technology acts as a motion sensor that detects faces, so the machine knows when
to activate the purchasing interface” I suppose it’s possible that a sloppy
developer would name an executable Invenda.Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe
which merely senses the presence of a face. But it seems like a baldfaced lie
when you consider that: “Invenda sales brochures that promised ‘the machines are
capable of sending estimated ages and genders’ of every person who used the
machines—without ever requesting consent.” Boycott Mars — I already boycott Mars
because they are a GMA member and they spent ~$500k lobbying against #GMO
labeling – and they have been blackballed for using child slave labor – and Mars
supports Russia. This is another good reason to #boycottMars. Update —
Apparently a #LemmyBug replaced the article URL with a picture URL? The article
is here:
https://www.wired.com/story/facial-recognition-vending-machine-error-investigation/
[https://www.wired.com/story/facial-recognition-vending-machine-error-investigation/]
The vending machine pic is here:
https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/2041d717-7cd7-4393-94f3-96aa87817aa7.jpeg
[https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/2041d717-7cd7-4393-94f3-96aa87817aa7.jpeg]
Then in a separate step, the article was edited and an image was uploaded. The URL of the local image unexpectedly replaced the URL of the article. Luckily I noticed the problem before losing track of the article URL.