2021
DOI: 10.14361/9783839457603-016
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Researchers Gone Wild

Abstract: Face recognition and biometric research are contributing to rapid growthinnewbiometricsurveillancetechnologies.Butmanyofthe datasets used for these technologies rely on media collected from non-consensual,nonregulatedsources.Researchersrefertothismediaasbeing"inthewild."Thisanalysisexaminesthewidespreadand largely unregulated use of images "in the wild" that were captured fromcampuses,CCTVcamerafeeds,socialmedia,celebritydatabases,andbyscrapinginternetsearchengines.Thefindingspresented here show that millions … Show more

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“…The original paper gave no specific motivating applications, but did note that "Recognizing celebrities, rather than a pre-selected private group of people, represents public interest and could be directly applied to a wide range of real scenarios." Researchers and journalists noted in 2019 that many of the "celebrities" were in fact fairly ordinary citizens, and that the images were aggregated without consent [36,59]. Several corporations tied to mass surveillance operations were also found to use the dataset in research papers [36,59].…”
Section: Overview Of the Datasets And Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The original paper gave no specific motivating applications, but did note that "Recognizing celebrities, rather than a pre-selected private group of people, represents public interest and could be directly applied to a wide range of real scenarios." Researchers and journalists noted in 2019 that many of the "celebrities" were in fact fairly ordinary citizens, and that the images were aggregated without consent [36,59]. Several corporations tied to mass surveillance operations were also found to use the dataset in research papers [36,59].…”
Section: Overview Of the Datasets And Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Researchers and journalists noted in 2019 that many of the "celebrities" were in fact fairly ordinary citizens, and that the images were aggregated without consent [36,59]. Several corporations tied to mass surveillance operations were also found to use the dataset in research papers [36,59]. The dataset was taken down in June 2019.…”
Section: Overview Of the Datasets And Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
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