Microsoft Just Deleted Its Massive Facial Recognition Data Set [gizmodo.com]
Microsoft discreetly wiped its massive facial recognition database [www.engadget.com]
Microsoft dataset of 10 million faces removed after commercial use revealed [www.onmsft.com]
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Microsoft Shutters MS Celeb Following Facial Recognition Concerns [winbuzzer.com]
Microsoft quietly yanks 'largest' facial recognition database offline [www.theinquirer.net]
Microsoft Removes Facial Recognition Database [www.pymnts.com]
U.S. tech giant Microsoft has quietly pulled database of 10 million faces, showing nearly 100,000 individuals, from the internet, @madhumita29 reports. Images have been used to train systems around the world, including by military and Chinese companies. https://t.co/H62YHBqSpW
— Janosch Delcker (@JanoschDelcker) June 6, 2019
I guess "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" is one-way traffic: @Microsoft quietly deletes largest public face recognition data set, @Stanford and @DukeU also remove their #facialrecognition data sets https://t.co/sjAF9gwtUj
— Stephanie Hare (@hare_brain) June 6, 2019
If you are working on facial recognition technology, you are almost certainly enabling repressive regimes, either now or in the future. https://t.co/EneMAamY3g
— Ross Grady (@rossgrady) June 6, 2019
It's not clear water, but I comment in this @FT article on legal challenges of facial recognition datasets. Public datasets of faces are often not 'manifestly made public' and commercial use can undermine the research ground in Article 9 GDPR (which needs MS basis anyway). https://t.co/ysjChcG5Ix
— Michael Veale (@mikarv) June 6, 2019
Excellent news: Microsoft quietly deletes largest public face recognition data set. Nice to see some principled leadership in tech https://t.co/qnl3PzAIfm via @financialtimes
— Margaret Heffernan (@M_Heffernan) June 6, 2019
Microsoft included a photo of the face of Shoshana Zuboff, the author of "The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism," in a database used to train the facial recognition systems deployed in China's dystopian surveillance of Uighur Muslims https://t.co/mjp0uloOsC
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) June 6, 2019
Microsoft, Duke and Stanford unis have quietly deleted large datasets of people's faces that were pulled from the internet without their consent after the FT reported on their commercil usage in April - https://t.co/gWL3kUc30K
— Madhumita Murgia (@madhumita29) June 6, 2019
Microsoft quietly deleted the world’s largest public facial recognition data set. It was being used by Megvii and SenseTime, two Chinese facial recognition companies who have contracts and business relationships in Xinjiang. https://t.co/UPanZcuAKF
— Ryan Mac (@RMac18) June 6, 2019
Microsoft quietly deletes largest public face recognition data set, Stanford and Duke uni also remove facial recognition data. “You can’t make a data set disappear. Once you post it, and people download it, it exists on hard drives all over the world” https://t.co/z2PQoc9i6z
— Robert Went (@went1955) June 6, 2019
Microsoft quietly deleted the world’s largest public facial recognition data set. It was being used by Megvii and SenseTime, two Chinese facial recognition companies who have contracts and business relationships in Xinjiang. https://t.co/UPanZcuAKF
— Ryan Mac (@RMac18) June 6, 2019
Microsoft discreetly wiped its massive facial recognition database https://t.co/ykFrx2rlBd
— Michelle R Carney (@michellercarney) June 6, 2019
"Microsoft is continuing its crusade by quietly deleting its MS Celeb database, which contains more than 10 million images of some 100,000 people."https://t.co/pIfKQIt4CF#InfoSec #MobileSecurity #SaaS #Tech #Ransomware #Websecurity #Vulnerability #CyberSecurity #hacking
— US Cybersecurity Mag. (@USCyberMag) June 6, 2019
Microsoft discreetly wiped its massive facial recognition database https://t.co/pZlvJUmDbJ
— Prosenjit Datta (@ProsaicView) June 6, 2019
how interesting. Microsoft discreetly wiped its massive facial recognition database https://t.co/SWrd8JPJ5O via @engadget
— Rachel Metz (@rachelmetz) June 6, 2019
Microsoft discreetly wiped its massive facial recognition database https://t.co/HqqyWdamlZ #Microsoft
— Laurent MILTGEN (@kubernan) June 6, 2019
Microsoft quietly deleted its MS Celeb database, which contained more than 10 million images of some 100,000 people. https://t.co/oqk790GTsV
— Adam Levin (@Adam_K_Levin) June 6, 2019
.@KimZetter @AdrianChen @shoshanazuboff @JulieSBrill this is so alarming https://t.co/LRr6v0IsGE pic.twitter.com/l4bbf2JIG0
— Davey Alba (@daveyalba) June 6, 2019
Microsoft has pulled the largest publicly available facial recognition data set in the world, containing more than 10m images of nearly 100,000 individuals https://t.co/B4jOCWH8Hf
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) June 6, 2019
Ha! Amazing work by @adamhrv & @cosmicsands on facial recognition. Microsoft & others forced to delete their sets <3 https://t.co/FxSKh5v6OV
— !Mediengruppe Bitnik (@bitnk) June 6, 2019
.@Microsoft has removed MS Celeb, the largest public facial recognition data set that held 10m images, all obtained without consent, and used worldwide to train facial recognition systems.@Stanford and Duke also removed their facial recognition data.https://t.co/GGpFw4mUKT
— Web3 Foundation (@web3foundation) June 6, 2019
Microsoft quietly deletes largest public face recognition data set: https://t.co/TAbRX9s6UC
— Disruption Network Lab (@disruptberlin) June 6, 2019
Join us next week at #AITRAPS to hear more from @adamhrv in the panel THE TRACKED & THE INVISIBLE: From Biometric Surveillance to Diversity in Data Science: https://t.co/PrNK5JyOMP https://t.co/wHUmJ7Ubwu
Microsoft quietly deletes largest public face recognition data set https://t.co/goHjljj7iI via @financialtimes #ethics #facialrecognition
— Reshaping Work (@reshaping_work) June 6, 2019
Microsoft quietly deletes largest public face recognition data set that has been by military researchers and Chinese firms https://t.co/3eWkmJok5U
— Ahmed Al Omran (@ahmed) June 6, 2019
Microsoft quietly deletes largest public face recognition data set https://t.co/CmfaOV0K2X
— Dr. Holly A. Bell ☕️ (@HollyBell8) June 6, 2019
Microsoft has quietly removed its database of 10 million faces used to train facial recognition from the internet.
— Big Brother Watch (@bbw1984) June 6, 2019
The images were collected without people's consent + were scraped off the web from search engines and videos.https://t.co/yOL9dvScpi
Investigation by @adamhrv: https://t.co/gJFdMv4ias
Intervening in the “AI supply chain” >>> Microsoft quietly deletes largest public face recognition data set https://t.co/P423RfaZt8
— Alondra Nelson (@alondra) June 6, 2019
Microsoft quietly deletes largest public face recognition data sethttps://t.co/sO18ZmnGF7
— Amy Webb (@amywebb) June 6, 2019
Excellent news: Microsoft quietly deletes largest public face recognition data set. Nice to see some principled leadership in tech https://t.co/qnl3PzAIfm via @financialtimes
— Margaret Heffernan (@M_Heffernan) June 6, 2019
Microsoft Quietly Pulls Its Database of 100,000 Faces Used By Chinese Surveillance Companies https://t.co/t44lt0ak6I via @gizmodo
— Halmurat Harri Uyghur (@HalmuratU) June 7, 2019
So, yes, "deleting" the database is a good thing, but.....as researcher Adam Harvey says: "You can't make a data set disappear. Once you post it, and people download it, it exists on hard drives all over the world..." https://t.co/EUjR5xGLkd
— One Ring (doorbell) to surveil them all... (@hypervisible) June 6, 2019
Microsoft, after calling for steps to regulate #FacialRecognition technology, walks its talk by deleting its entire database of 10 million images of about 100,000 humans. https://t.co/3GSqK07Zsu
— Satish Babu (@satish_babu) June 7, 2019
— Christian Reilly (@reillyusa) June 7, 2019
Microsoft discreetly wiped its massive facial recognition database #microsoft #facialrecognition @engadget @rachel_england https://t.co/3f9NEfYyXO
— Evan Kirstel (@evankirstel) June 6, 2019
.@Microsoft discreetly wiped its massive #facialrecognition database https://t.co/36w2URGjFr#artificialintelligence
— Bob E. Hayes (@bobehayes) June 7, 2019
Microsoft discreetly wiped its massive facial recognition database https://t.co/1gAEghgyYt
— ???? ?????? (@mattstaggs) June 7, 2019
Microsoft discreetly wiped its massive facial recognition database https://t.co/Mv57lZ8gIT via @engadget
— Derek Smart (@dsmart) June 6, 2019
21st C Orwellian challenge brought to you by Microsoft's 'large-scale face recognizer':
— Shoshana Zuboff (@shoshanazuboff) June 7, 2019
"Many people in the target list are even vocal critics of the very technology Microsoft is using..." Including me.https://t.co/xBHUrxZYZ7
Did Orwell die in vain?https://t.co/VYEEbIV95f https://t.co/Oj470iX7gH
Microsoft quietly deletes largest public face recognition data set but its shadow lives on https://t.co/GKiwdto24h
— Sharon Polsky (@PolskySays) June 7, 2019
With hindsight, the biggest problem with Creative Commons license on Flickr photographs is that the license proteced the content creators, and not those depicted in content.https://t.co/mhS7V4DoyP
— Desmond Elliott (@delliott) June 7, 2019
Shhhh, tech company cleaning up the crime scene!
— SedaG (@sedyst) June 6, 2019
Microsoft quietly deletes largest public face recognition data set
(@Stanford and @DukeU follow suit)https://t.co/Ef0PmxQeZo
w/ smart commentary from @mikarv pic.twitter.com/6xPpSeM1bp
This is pretty big - yet another massive archive removed. But how are these images removed? Are they shredded, deleted or just obscured? "Microsoft quietly deletes largest public face recognition data set" https://t.co/b2k1yXHGVY via @financialtimes
— nanna thylstrup (@NThylstrup) June 6, 2019
Microsoft quietly deletes largest public face recognition data set https://t.co/hFBI8Ost1v via @financialtimes
— Ivana Bartoletti (@IvanaBartoletti) June 7, 2019