Wingers both left and right need to get out of their bubbles. Wingers have no idea what their opposition believe. And attacking centrists is an silly approach to further you're cause. They're literally the people you should be engaging with instead of producing bubbled memes like this.

Fill the drive 100% using data duplicator then delete everything on the drive. Repeat a few times to ensure you scrub all blocks. There is no need to physically destroy the drive.

edit: fair criticism of this approach in cases when the data is unencryptd and the hard drives has bad blocks. I just wanted to give a counter to the destroying hardware approach which isn't necessary warranted

Lol yeah, if the easily checked facts don't align with beliefs then groupthink-people double down on their beliefs. Denying reality is easier than changing beliefs. It's the same reasoning skills that Trump supporters use 😅

Consent is a requirement for GDPR compliance. They are likely taking an image from the camera, extracting semantic attributes from the image, and then discarding the image. The length of time the individual is standing there making the purchase is likely longer than the image is stored in memory while extracting the attributes.

That's not true. They're likely using a model that identifies some demographic attribute and associating that with a purchase. It's 2024, this can all be done on the machine. The machine doesn't need to store the individuals data etc. If the vending is storing enough data to identify individuals then it wouldn't be GDPR compliant.

The Canadian Human Rights Act protects Canadians from discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, disability etc.

There is no indication that the vending machine was collecting customer biometrics. In fact that would prevent it from being GDPR compliant.

It's because I understand the technology and the actual threats to our privacy.

Likely for general marketing feedback so not targeting individuals like Facebook, Google, etc. If the vending machine is GDPR compliant then it's not storing individuals PII on the machine (it would be physically insecure) or transmitting PII without consent. And anyway, the marketing team wouldn't care about individuals, they're looking for aggregate trends. I think we should have stricter anti-marketing laws but this is not a dangerous anti-privacy vector. Online marketing is far far worse so if we're concerned with privacy, let's implement laws and policies that protect privacy instead of these BS distractions that don't actually affect people's privacy.

Pointless gatekeeping by the devs

More likely it's to ensure that you've actually listened to the podcast you're rating

edit: Can someone explain the downvotes, what am I missing here?

We live in the most peaceful time in history and we carry the collective knowledge of humanity in our pockets. We have many problems to solve now and in the future but some perspective is useful.

Edit: this thread screams ignorance