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Burger King Giving Discounts If Facial Recognition Thinks You're Hungover (gizmodo.com)
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[–] ech@lemm.ee 51 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Taking advantage of inebriated people to hand over their biometrics, not even for a free burger, but a discounted burger.

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Formerly inebriated people.

A free burger would make for a very expensive data set methinks.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago

Oh no, they'd get slightly less obscenely wealthy on the exploitation of ill-gotten biometrics *shockedpikachuface*