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Stephane Hamel
Digital marketing & analytics shaped by data governance, privacy and ethics | Educator · Speaker · Consultant
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February 24, 2024
Interesting story this morning about a vending machine equipped with facial recognition at the University of Waterloo. "Earlier this month, a student noticed an error message on one of the machines in the Modern Languages building. It appeared to indicate there was a problem with a facial recognition application." I knew this was possible, and guess what's the first statement on the Invenda privacy policy page? Yes, you have guessed right! "Your privacy is important to us." Policy, which, btw, is amazingly succinct and incomplete (the company is based in California). Digging further, their brochure indicates the following information is being collected: • demographics (presumably through the facial recognition for gender, age, etc.) • foot traffic (presumably, the camera detects people passing by) • marketing profile data (whatever that is!) • interactions, heat map, and of course, all kind of stats about sales and the state of the machine itself. Oh! But rest assured... it's all "anonymous" and apparently, the facial recognition is done on the machine itself... (sic!) #NoConsentNoTracking #IoT #digitalmarketing #dataprivacy
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February 24, 2024