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status: published
-title: Microsoft Celeb
+title: Microsoft Celeb Dataset
desc: Microsoft Celeb 1M is a target list and dataset of web images used for research and development of face recognition
subdesc: The MS Celeb dataset includes over 10 million images of about 100K people and a target list of 1 million individuals
slug: msceleb
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### sidebar
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-Microsoft Celeb (MS Celeb) is a dataset of 10 million face images scraped from the Internet and used for research and development of large-scale biometric recognition systems. According to Microsoft Research, who created and published the [dataset](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/ms-celeb-1m-dataset-benchmark-large-scale-face-recognition-2/) in 2016, MS Celeb is the largest publicly available face recognition dataset in the world, containing over 10 million images of nearly 100,000 individuals. Microsoft's goal in building this dataset was to distribute an initial training dataset of 100,000 individuals' images, and to use this dataset to accelerate research into recognizing a larger target list of one million people "using all the possibly collected face images of this individual on the web as training data".[^msceleb_orig]
+Microsoft Celeb (MS Celeb) is a dataset of 10 million face images scraped from the Internet and used for research and development of large-scale biometric recognition systems. According to Microsoft Research, who created and published the [dataset](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/ms-celeb-1m-dataset-benchmark-large-scale-face-recognition-2/) in 2016, MS Celeb is the largest publicly available face recognition dataset in the world, containing over 10 million images of nearly 100,000 individuals. Microsoft's goal in building this dataset was to distribute an initial training dataset of 100,000 individuals' images to accelerate research into recognizing a larger target list of one million people "using all the possibly collected face images of this individual on the web as training data".[^msceleb_orig]
-These one million people, defined by Microsoft Research as "celebrities", are often merely people who must maintain an online presence for their professional lives. Microsoft's list of 1 million people is an expansive exploitation of the current reality that for many people, including academics, policy makers, writers, artists, and especially journalists, maintaining an online presence is mandatory. This fact should not allow Microsoft or anyone else to use their biometrics for research and development of surveillance technology. Many names in the target list even include people critical of the very technology Microsoft is using their name and biometric information to build. The list includes digital rights activists like Jillian York; artists critical of surveillance including Trevor Paglen, Jill Magid, and Aram Bartholl; Intercept founders Laura Poitras, Jeremy Scahill, and Glenn Greenwald; Data and Society founder danah boyd; and even Julie Brill, the former FTC commissioner responsible for protecting consumer privacy, to name a few.
+These one million people, defined by Microsoft Research as "celebrities", are often merely people who must maintain an online presence for their professional lives. Microsoft's list of 1 million people is an expansive exploitation of the current reality that for many people, including academics, policy makers, writers, artists, and especially journalists; maintaining an online presence is mandatory. This fact should not allow Microsoft nor anyone else to use their biometrics for research and development of surveillance technology. Many names in the target list even include people critical of the very technology Microsoft is using their name and biometric information to build. The list includes digital rights activists like Jillian York; artists critical of surveillance including Trevor Paglen, Jill Magid, and Aram Bartholl; Intercept founders Laura Poitras, Jeremy Scahill, and Glenn Greenwald; Data and Society founder danah boyd; and even Julie Brill, the former FTC commissioner responsible for protecting consumer privacy, to name a few.
### Microsoft's 1 Million Target List
-Below is a selection of names from the full target list, curated to illustrate Microsoft's expansive and exploitative practice of scraping the Internet for biometric training data. The entire name file can be downloaded from [msceleb.org](https://www.msceleb.org). You can email <a href="mailto:msceleb@microsoft.com?subject=MS-Celeb-1M Removal Request&body=Dear%20Microsoft%2C%0A%0AI%20recently%20discovered%20that%20you%20use%20my%20identity%20for%20commercial%20use%20in%20your%20MS-Celeb-1M%20dataset%20used%20for%20research%20and%20development%20of%20face%20recognition.%20I%20do%20not%20wish%20to%20be%20included%20in%20your%20dataset%20in%20any%20format.%20%0A%0APlease%20remove%20my%20name%20and%2For%20any%20associated%20images%20immediately%20and%20send%20a%20confirmation%20once%20you've%20updated%20your%20%22Top1M_MidList.Name.tsv%22%20file.%0A%0AThanks%20for%20promptly%20handing%20this%2C%0A%5B%20your%20name%20%5D">msceleb@microsoft.com</a> to have your name removed. Names appearing with * indicate that Microsoft also distributed images.
+Below is a selection of 24 names from the full target list, curated to illustrate Microsoft's expansive and exploitative practice of scraping the Internet for biometric training data. The entire name file can be downloaded from [msceleb.org](https://www.msceleb.org). You can email <a href="mailto:msceleb@microsoft.com?subject=MS-Celeb-1M Removal Request&body=Dear%20Microsoft%2C%0A%0AI%20recently%20discovered%20that%20you%20use%20my%20identity%20for%20commercial%20use%20in%20your%20MS-Celeb-1M%20dataset%20used%20for%20research%20and%20development%20of%20face%20recognition.%20I%20do%20not%20wish%20to%20be%20included%20in%20your%20dataset%20in%20any%20format.%20%0A%0APlease%20remove%20my%20name%20and%2For%20any%20associated%20images%20immediately%20and%20send%20a%20confirmation%20once%20you've%20updated%20your%20%22Top1M_MidList.Name.tsv%22%20file.%0A%0AThanks%20for%20promptly%20handing%20this%2C%0A%5B%20your%20name%20%5D">msceleb@microsoft.com</a> to have your name removed. Names appearing with * indicate that Microsoft also distributed your images.
=== columns 2
@@ -42,12 +42,12 @@ Below is a selection of names from the full target list, curated to illustrate M
| Evgeny Morozov* | Tech writer, researcher |
| Glenn Greenwald* | Journalist, author |
| Hito Steyerl | Artist, writer |
+| James Risen | Journalist |
-===
+====
| Name | Profession |
| --- | --- | --- |
-| James Risen | Journalist |
| Jeremy Scahill* | Journalist |
| Jill Magid | Artist |
| Jillian York | Digital rights activist |
@@ -56,14 +56,17 @@ Below is a selection of names from the full target list, curated to illustrate M
| Kim Zetter | Journalist, author |
| Laura Poitras* | Filmmaker |
| Luke DuBois | Artist |
+| Michael Anti | Political blogger |
+| Manal al-Sharif* | Womens's rights activist |
| Shoshana Zuboff | Author, academic |
| Trevor Paglen | Artist, researcher |
=== end columns
-After publishing this list, researchers from Microsoft Asia then worked with researchers affiliated with China's National University of Defense Technology (controlled by China's Central Military Commission) and used the the MS Celeb dataset for their [research paper](https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Faces-as-Lighting-Probes-via-Unsupervised-Deep-Yi-Zhu/b301fd2fc33f24d6f75224e7c0991f4f04b64a65) on using "Faces as Lighting Probes via Unsupervised Deep Highlight Extraction" with potential applications in 3D face recognition.
-In an [article](https://www.ft.com/content/9378e7ee-5ae6-11e9-9dde-7aedca0a081a) published by Financial Times based on data surfaced during this investigation, Samm Sacks (a senior fellow at the New America think tank) commented that this research raised "red flags because of the nature of the technology, the author's affiliations, combined with what we know about how this technology is being deployed in China right now". Adding, that "the [Chinese] government is using these technologies to build surveillance systems and to detain minorities [in Xinjiang]".[^madhu_ft]
+After publishing this list, researchers affiliated with Microsoft Asia then worked with researchers affiliated with China's National University of Defense Technology (controlled by China's Central Military Commission) and used the the MS Celeb dataset for their [research paper](https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Faces-as-Lighting-Probes-via-Unsupervised-Deep-Yi-Zhu/b301fd2fc33f24d6f75224e7c0991f4f04b64a65) on using "Faces as Lighting Probes via Unsupervised Deep Highlight Extraction" with potential applications in 3D face recognition.
+
+In an April 10, 2019 [article](https://www.ft.com/content/9378e7ee-5ae6-11e9-9dde-7aedca0a081a) published by Financial Times based on data surfaced during this investigation, Samm Sacks (a senior fellow at the New America think tank) commented that this research raised "red flags because of the nature of the technology, the author's affiliations, combined with what we know about how this technology is being deployed in China right now". Adding, that "the [Chinese] government is using these technologies to build surveillance systems and to detain minorities [in Xinjiang]".[^madhu_ft]
Four more papers published by SenseTime, which also use the MS Celeb dataset, raise similar flags. SenseTime is a computer vision surveillance company that until [April 2019](https://uhrp.org/news-commentary/china%E2%80%99s-sensetime-sells-out-xinjiang-security-joint-venture) provided surveillance to Chinese authorities to monitor and track Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province, and had been [flagged](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/technology/china-surveillance-artificial-intelligence-racial-profiling.html) numerous times as having potential links to human rights violations.