Dunkin Donuts to Use Face Scanners to Target You For Ads

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The Wall Street Journal says that Dunkin' Donuts is experimenting with video screens that use facial recognition technology to figure out your age and gender. The screens then display ads targeted specifically to you.

The last thing we need is computers trying to figure out who and what we are so they can target ads to us.

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EU to Scan Airline Passengers Faces During Flight

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By putting tons of cameras at different angles on an airplane and carefully inspecting everyone's faces and movements, the EU hopes to identify terrorists before they strike.

There's only a few problems to work out:

  1. There's no way to know what a terrorist looks like
  2. Removing privacy with no gain is a vast waste of money and resources
  3. Mass surveillance hurts everyone and doesn't actually work.
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