Vending Machine Company Stands By Their Peephole

Attention, Waterloo University students! Invenda's Smart Vending machine observes your habits for your benefit. No privacy invasion here, just optimized snack choices. pic.twitter.com/kW4PwP6OlA

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Hey you! Yes you, walking into the Student Union Building on the Campus of Waterloo University. You just walked by that new vending machine!! Didn’t you forget your Vita Coco water and your Cliff Bar? That’s normally what you have at 4pm between your workout and biology class. Invenda's Smart Vending machine not only took note of your past selections, days and times of purchase, but noticed that you're a 6’2” male around 19 years old with a healthy body composition. 

I know what you’re thinking. Invenda in no way asked for your consent before taking sensitive biometric data nor disclosed in any way that there was a camera in the snack machine monitoring your daily moves! But rest assured, Big Brother can guarantee that these machines do NOT have facial recognition capabilities, just facial analysis! They don’t recognize and store individual features, just determine your age, gender and the fact that you’re not a squirrel. You can trust us.

Anyways, at this point in your young life, hasn’t it become generally accepted that you're being recorded by someone looking to profit from your habits at all times?  Let’s go ahead and normalize that, comrade. Without it, the quality, and more importantly, quantity of your snack selection would be reduced. And you deserve better.