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Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students (arstechnica.com)
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Facial-recognition data is typically used to prompt more vending machine sales.

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[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Simple in what way?

You could make logistics simpler by giving these things networking capacity so you can remotely track their stock and cash levels.

If your software needs to run on multiple different device configurations, you can simplify development and deployment by letting the OS handle a lot of the low level stuff.

In other words, a simpler machine is not necessarily going to be simpler to operate for the company.