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

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[-] AngryishHumanoid@reddthat.com 3 points 8 months ago

From the side of someone who works heavily in data analysis and application databases I can tell you it would be very, very easy to see if it was just a front end application using the data or storing it in a database. There are use cases for both setups, absolutely, but a cursory examination of the machine in question would make it abundantly clear which it was doing.

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