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Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Let's stop kidding ourselves, the "good reason" is the cto's yearly Microsoft financed holidays and/or too much legacy code to restart from scratch. But from a purely technical aspect, there's no reason to touch windows