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Millions of people’s images, taken from security cameras and sites like OkCupid, are quietly being used to train facial recognition software.

7/13/2019

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More on the subject of social media privacy from The New York Times.

"Dozens of databases of people’s faces are being compiled without their knowledge by companies and researchers, with many of the images then being shared around the world, in what has become a vast ecosystem fueling the spread of facial recognition technology.

"The databases are pulled together with images from social networks, photo websites, dating services like OkCupid and cameras placed in restaurants and on college quads. While there is no precise count of the data sets, privacy activists have pinpointed repositories that were built by Microsoft, Stanford University and others, with one holding over 10 million images while another had more than two million."

Read the full article here:

https://nyti.ms/2JwAUqA
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