Databases of people’s faces are being compiled without their knowledge and shared around the world, The New York Times reports. The datasets contain images pulled from social media, photo websites and cameras in restaurants and on college campuses. Some datasets contain thousands of images, but others contain millions. Privacy advocates have raised concerns over a lack of oversight of the datasets, noting that people’s faces are being used to create “ethically questionable technology.” While Facebook and Google do not distribute face datasets, other companies have shared images with governments of other countries “for training artificial intelligence.” (Registration may be required to access this article.)
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