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An error message on a vending machine on a university campus has led to an international conversation about third-party surveillance and the ineffectiveness of privacy laws.

The smart vending machines, manufactured by Invenda Group, were owned by Mars, the parent company of M&Ms.

The University of Waterloo is expected to remove smart vending machines from its campus.A student discovered an error code that suggested the machines used

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A vending machine in a Canadian university was found to be stealing sensitive facial recognition data without user consent.

A photo shared on Reddit showed one of the vending machines with an error code suggesting it used facial recognition tech.

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A student investigation at the University of Waterloo uncovered a system that scanned countless undergrads without consent.

A set of smart vending machines at the University of Waterloo is expected to be removed from campus after students raised privacy concerns about their software.

A set of smart vending machines at the University of Waterloo has stirred up quite the controversy among students, who quickly raised privacy conce...