Some cannabis companies are controvertially embracing facial recognition technology to prevent burglaries, control access to stores and better understand customers.
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- A company called 420 Cyber has developed budtender kiosks which can use facial recognition to measure customer’s emotional response to products.
- “It is hard, if not impossible, to find an example of a surveillance technology that has not been turned against groups that are already vulnerable in our structurally inequitable system,” said Shankar Narayan, Director of the Technology and Liberty Project at the ACLU of Washington.
