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

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I’d doubt it’s collecting or transmitting much. It’s probably just estimating age, sex, race etc. and using it to decide which promotion to put on screen. It’s possibly collecting these to determine what type of people use the machine. Similar to those billboards in shopping centres.

    Storing each individual to recognize later or identify online seems like a stretch.

    If it did have a user bio database, it would be centralised and not on the machine itself.