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University vending machine error reveals use of secret facial recognition | A malfunctioning vending machine at a Canadian university has inadvertently revealed that a number of them have been usin... (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Under GDPR you also need explicit consent for data collection, right?

[-] nicerdicer2@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Correct. The said vending machine was collecting data without users consent. And because it was facial recognition data it means that the collected data can be tied to an individual.

It would have been different if the collected data was just a counter which indcated the number of users of that machine. These kind of data could not have been tied to a specific individual.

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