Re: [projectvrm] Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped without consent

[Benjamin Goering < >]

I think it's a feature that I (or anyone) can download any image on the web.

Sometimes it seems like people want the benefits of publishing things to the world without any of the downsides, but it's a natural tradeoff. Any way of artificially interfering with that is going to be swimming upstream. The only way to win the "private publishing" game is not to publish.

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 7:17 AM Guy Jarvis < "> > wrote:

Rather like FB got started by scraping college year books without consent, there's a pattern here...

On Wed, 13 Mar 2019, 01:05 Dr. Augustine Fou, < " rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"> > wrote:

@OliviaSolon: "Earlier this year IBM released a dataset of 1 million photos of people's faces designed to reduce bias in facial recognition software. I was surprised that the pictures were taken from Flickr & so investigated the origins of facial recognition datasets"

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/facial-recognition-s-dirty-little-secret-millions-online-photos-scraped-n981921

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